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RE: [xsl] TEXT flat file as input

2006-06-05 01:54:03
In XSLT 2.0 this is straightforward. You can use unparsed-text() to read the
text file, and tokenize() to split it into records and fields.

In 1.0 it's a bit more convoluted. You first need to turn it into XML (by
adding a trivial start and end tag), then you need to process it using
recursive templates. But it's almost certainly possible to find reusable
code that can do this.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Khorasani, Houman 
[mailto:Houman(_dot_)Khorasani(_at_)comverse(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 05 June 2006 09:48
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] TEXT flat file as input

Sofar I have always used XSLT to transform from XML to XML.

I am working on a new project where the input file is in a text flat
file:

account_no,123456,subscr_no,654321

Is it possible to read such a file with XSLT and transform 
the first field until the comma into an XML element and put 
the second field as its value and etc?

Is this a reliable way to do that?

Many Thanks,
Houman

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