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Converting text to Docbook XML

The first problem is the white lines, we have to deal only with the lines containing at least one non-blank character. Say that the input file for awk is called awkinput, then the following command takes out blank lines:

grep -c . awkinput

This reduced input can then be fed into awk:

grep . awkinput | awk 'BEGIN { FS="\t" } { print "<row>\n<entry> $1 \
"</entry>\n<entry>\n" $2 "\n</entry>\n</row> }'