# 2024-08-01 - XML2TSV
       
       I have had fun using json2tsv [1].  It simplifies the task of using
       JSON data in AWK scripts.
       
       I wanted something like json2tsv but for XML.  Conventional wisdom
       says that parsing XML with regex causes madness, and results in N+1
       problems.  You have been warned.
       
       I wrote separate scripts to be used in a pipeline.  Breaking it down
       into multiple steps greatly simplifies the task of parsing XML in
       AWK.
       
       cdata.awk converts the weird <![CDATA[]]> sections a more "regular"
       format that xml2tsv.awk can parse.
       
       xmlrem.awk removes the <!-- XML Comment --> sections.
       
       xml2tsv.awk reads XML on stdin and prints TSV on stdout, replacing
       tab with \t, carriage return with \r, and newline with \n.
       
       Usage:
       
           cdata.awk file.xml | xmlrem.awk | xml2tsv.awk >file.tsv
       
       I tested this script [2] [3] [4] in gawk, mawk, and nawk, including
       my 16-bit DOS build of nawk.  This is just a toy and i would not
       recommend using it on large data sets.
       
       tags: bencollver,retrocomputing,technical
       
       # Footnotes
       
 (DIR) [1] json2tsv
       
 (TXT) [2] cdata.awk
       
 (TXT) [3] xmlrem.awk
       
 (TXT) [4] xml2tsv.awk
       
       # Tags
       
 (DIR) bencollver
 (DIR) retrocomputing
 (DIR) technical