How replace variable names in an xml-file?

Question

The java build tool ant provides filter to replace variables by their values

Example: A file with properties:

db.user.name=user
db.driver=com.informi         


        

Answer 1

sed -e 's/@db.driver@/com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver/g' -e 's/@db.user.name@/user/g' > outfile.xml