How to dynamically insert a comment in an xml file

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I have a simple task of adding a comment at the beginning of the line of xml file, where a specified latin letter is found.
Now i have been doing this manually, but I’m pretty sure there must be a better way of doing this. To more clearly explain:

existing line of code:
<xs:pattern value=“(||[\?]){1}”/>

needs to be
<!-- changed line –> <xs:pattern value=“(||[\?]){1}”/>

The comments have to be added to those lines in the file that contain the X in it, so how do i dynamically add a comment to at the beginning of those lines.

I can only think of using PHP for this since I’m new to pretty much everthing else, but what do the experts say?

Thanks

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you could try using ‘sed’. It doesn’t have an idea about XML, but does it really need to know?

also this is in the Java forum… are you looking for a Java based solution?

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It’s an xml file, so I figure java would be the way to go, somehow. Thanks