sorry, it was a long day (and a friday too!).
A text file where each column has a fixed length. As in:
id name
1 tom
1 steve
1 john
2 jane
2 mary
Where each fields starts and ends at a specific column (here the first column
ends and the second column starts at the 7th character of each line).
I need to turn it into a XML file like:
<records>
<data id="1">
<name>tom</name>
<name>steve></name>
<name>john</name>
</data>
<data id="2">
<name>jane</name>
<name>mary</name>
</data>
</records>
One option would be to get an XMLReader to parse the text file and use XSLT to
translate it into the XML that i need. I've already started writing a reader
that parses the file based on a regular expression pattern, but if one already
exists, then i'd prefer to use it.
Thanks again,
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Kesselman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: fixed length file XMLReader
I'm not sure I understand the question. Could you define what you mean by
"fixed length file"?
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
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