DOCBOOK-APPS: preprocessing source code to use in DocBook?

["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>]

Now that I have finally got DocBook to start working for me (I'm so stoked), I'm 
going to start writing a programmer's manual for a C++ API that uses lots of 
templates, pointers and references, and thus code samples will contain "<", ">", 
and "&" characters everywhere.

Is there a readily available and simple tool for filtering text files into files 
where all the metacharacters have been converted into entities?  This would save 
a lot of typing.

Thanks,

Mike
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