RE: [xml-dev] Is there a parser?

>I have a situation to create an XML output based on a
>DTD and pipe delimited data file, meaning the inputs
>are a DTD which is variable and a pipe delimited file
>with data for the tags in the DTD, the output should
>be an XML file.
>
>I have not heard of any pre-build general program
>(kinda parser) to do this function. I wanted to double
>check with ya all.
>
>Any input would be highly useful.

The following is a quick & dirty approach, which works as long as the source
file is table-like:

http://www.isacat.net/2001/code/CSVtoXML.htm

Rather than taking a DTD as the definition (not a bad idea...) it takes a
simple text file giving the field names etc. Example below.

Cheers,
Danny.

source data:

John Smith, The Nook, ,
Tim Bot, High Street, ,
Fred Gregory, Tidza, 

properties file:

dtd=addresses.dtd
comment=Generated using CSVToXML
delimiter=,
rootname=addressbook
recordname=address
fields=3
field0=name
field1=address
field2=email

usage:

java CSVToXML [properties file] [source file] [destination file]

output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<DOCTYPE addressbook SYSTEM addresses.dtd>

<!-- Generated using CSVToXML -->

<addressbook>
	<address>
		<name>John Smith</name>
		<address>The Nook</address>
		<email></email>
	</address>
	<address>
		<name>Tim Bot</name>
		<address>High Street</address>
		<email></email>
	</address>
	<address>
		<name>Fred Gregory</name>
		<address>Tidza</address>
		<email></email>
	</address>
</addressbook>