Thanks Michael and Bryce for your responses.
We need a style sheet to get the job done for us. We are aware of XML
Convert and other tools of this nature that will enable us to fulfill the
transformation requirements (tactical solution), but we need something more
of an open nature to fulfill our strategic direction. Based on what I have
heard so far, XSLT 2.0 is the easiest way to accompish this, but we are not
ready to move to this version :-( . We also have java programs doing xml to
fixed length text, but we are unable to share this code base across
different platforms. We want to be able to write the style sheet once and
use in other places across the organization, and this is why a style sheet,
rather than a proprietary tool is more appealing to us. So if anyone else
has any other ideas, I would really appreciate your thoughts....
Regards
Garvin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 7:19 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting a Batch File to XML
It can be done using XSLT 1.0, but it's going to be pretty hard work,
which
is why I advised 2.0 for this problem. I think if I were constrained to
1.0
then I would probably do it in Java instead. Of course I don't know your
project constraints.
Michael Kay
-----Original Message-----
From: Garvin Franco [mailto:garvin_franco(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 23 July 2004 23:41
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting a Batch File to XML
Michael, unfortunately we are not ready to move to XSLT 2.0.
I understand that most XSLT 2.0 engines are not quite ready
or are based on
experimental code. Is XSLT 2.0 the only solution to this
problem? It seems
that it can be done using a series of templates, but I'm
having problems
figuring out how to structure the style sheet to give me the
desired output.
Garvin
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk>
Reply-To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting a Batch File to XML Date: Fri,
23 Jul 2004
22:04:05 +0100
This kind of thing is very much easier using XSLT 2.0
* use the unparsed-text() function to read the text file
* split it into individual lines using the tokenize() function
* parse each line using xsl:analyze-string
* arrange it into a hierarchical structure using xsl:for-each-group
Michael Kay
-----Original Message-----
From: Garvin Franco [mailto:garvin_franco(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 23 July 2004 20:31
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Converting a Batch File to XML
Hello folks, looking for some insight here. Need to know if
this is possible
using XSLT. I prefer using a style sheet as I may use this
style sheet in a
Java,C++ and .NET environment.
I have a flat file that I need to convert to an XML
structure. Now I can do
this if the records in the file had the same structure, this
is fairly
simple. But my source fixed length file has mutliple records
that need to be
associated to a single node on the target xml. For example,
my file is
structured as follows...
FROM
Source: Fixed Length Data
H-A-HEADER........
I-AN-ITEM-1........
I-AN-ITEM-2........
S-A-SUMMARY-1..
I-AN-ITEM-3........
S-A-SUMMARY-2..
(Note: each record is on a new line)
TO
Target: XML Data
<someRoot>
<header>
<headerTag>A-HEADER</headerTag> <!-- note the header
ID,'H',not
transformed -->
</header>
<record>
<order>
<item>
<itemTag>AN-ITEM-1</itemTag> <!-- note the item
ID,'I',not
transformed -->
</item>
<item>
<itemTag>AN-ITEM-2</itemTag>
</item>
<summary>
<summaryTag>A-SUMMARY-1</summaryTag> <!-- note
summary ID,'S',not
transformed -->
</summary>
</order>
</record>
<record>
<order>
<item>
<itemTag>AN-ITEM-3</itemTag>
</item>
<summary>
<summaryTag>A-SUMMARY-2</summaryTag>
</summary>
</order>
<record>
</someRoot>
Would appreciate any thoughts or samples that you can provide
to help me
achieve this. I believe recursion will be needed here, right?
Also, it may
not be efficient to load the entire file into a variable,
then start
processing from there. These are some of the things I thought
about, but I'm
not to sure how to start.
Thanking you in advance for any ideas. Also, if this is not
the forum for
this, please advise...
Regards
Garvin
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