#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use HTML::Parser; # set up a hash containing the umlauted characters and their replacements: my %replace = ( "\xC4" => 'Ae', "\xCF" => 'Ie', "\xD6" => 'Oe', "\xDC" => 'Ue', "\xE4" => 'ae', "\xEF" => 'ie', "\xF6" => 'oe', "\xFC" => 'ue', ); my $um = join '', keys %replace; binmode STDIN, ':utf8'; binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; $/ = undef; my $input = <>; my $output = ''; my $p = HTML::Parser->new( api_version => 3, start_h => [ \&fix_umlaut, 'tagname, attr, text' ], default_h => [ \©, 'text' ], ); $p->empty_element_tags( 1 ); $p->parse( $input ); print $output; sub fix_umlaut { my ( $tagname, $attr, $text ) = @_; $output .= $text; if ( $tagname eq 'idx:orth' and $$attr{value} =~ /[$um]/ ) { $text =~ s/([$um])/$replace{$1}/g; $output .= $text; # repeat the tag with modified umlauts } } sub copy { $output .= $_[0]; }