Escaping XML with Sed

Posted on 2016-11-28 by ken_fallon

There are five XML characters that need to be escaped:

"   &quot;
'   &apos;
<   &lt;
>   &gt;
&   &amp;

And here is the solution ruakh provided over on stackoverflow

sed 's/&/\&amp;/g; s/</\&lt;/g; s/>/\&gt;/g; s/"/\&quot;/g; s/'"'"'/\&#39;/g'

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