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09.18.2008 at 10:02AM PDT, ID: 23743135
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How to use ant to remove comment lines from an xml?

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I have a scenario in which ant build xml files are not parsed consistently. The root cause seem to be the presence of invalid characters within the comment line.. ex:

<!-- WhatString @(#)TEST %full_name: somethingl#29/xml/test.xml/12 2008-09-17 13:37:04 % -->
<!-- (c) All rights reserved etc.  -->
<project>
...
</project>

I am trying to write an ant script which will remove the first two comment lines - and i need to do this over a large number of scripts across multiple directories. I tried going the xslt route, but not sure how to match all the possible nodes in the xml except the comment.. any ideas?
 
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