How can I manipulate file names using bash and sed?

I am trying to loop through all the files in a directory.

I want to do some stuff on each file (convert it to xml, not included in example), then write the file to a new directory structure.

for file in `find /home/devel/stuff/static/ -iname "*.pdf"`;
do
  echo $file;
  sed -e 's/static/changethis/' $file > newfile +".xml";
  echo $newfile;
done

I want the results to be:

$file => /home/devel/stuff/static/2002/hello.txt

$newfile => /home/devel/stuff/changethis/2002/hello.txt.xml

How do I have to change my sed line?

bash shell sed

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How can I manipulate file names using bash and sed?

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