---
name: "hxuncdata"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "html-xml-utils"
version: "8.8-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hxuncdata"
---

# hxuncdata(1)

replace CDATA sections by character entities

## NAME

hxuncdata - replace CDATA sections by character entities

## SYNOPSIS

**hxuncdata** \[ *xml-file* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**hxuncdata** replaces CDATA sections by character entities. The input is scanned for occurrences of "\<!\[CDATA\[" and corresponding "\]\]\>". Those strings are removed and all occurrences of "&", "\<" and "\>" in between them will be replaced by "&amp;", "&lt;" and "&gt;" respectively.

The input must be 1 byte per character. If it is not, convert it to UTF-8 first.

## OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

- **-?**, **--help**

  Show command usage.

## OPERANDS

The following operand is supported:

- *xml-file*

  The file to work on.

## SEE ALSO

**UTF-8** (RFC 2279)