I have proprietary XML that contains a "formula". An example of this:

*IF *VALUE ManagedSystem.Product *EQ NT *AND *VALUE ManagedSystem.Status *EQ '*OFFLINE'

I want to replace all of the words that begin with an asterisk with some readable text. Also, the AttributeGroup.Attribute names listed in the string should be replaced with their correct display text:

If the value of Product Code is equal to NT and the value of Status is equal to 'OFFLINE'

I can do this with regex, and this isn't too cumbersome with the asterisk words since there aren't that many of them. But the AttributeGroup.Attribute names passes two-thousand. We have scraped them out of the appropriate files and put them into a database, hoping we could use that as a lookup, but I'm not sure how.

It is possible a templating system could help us, but the XML is not something we generate, so we'd have to add template markup, and at that point, we might as well just do the work.

Any ideas for a not-so-hard way to do this?

In reply to Search and Replace with a Large Dictionary by THuG

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