Search/replace in huge files without line breaks

i need to search and replace in huge XML files not containing line breaks. i cannot load them to memory as a whole because of size and cannot write a simple GrepReader because the $%��*" legacy system exporting the files does not do line breaking
plz help

P.S.
the files are looking similar to XML, they are not XML at all - thats the original reason i have to modify them, no parser will accept them. aka: plz do not suggest SAX-parsing...

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