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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