How to take out the profiles out of "settings.xml"?

[Thomas Chang]

Hi all,
   
  Notmally the "settings.xml" has the element of  <profiles> and 
<activeProfiles>. Now I want to take these out of the "settings.xml" and put 
them into another file. How to do so?
   
  Regards
   
  Thomas

       
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