Re: [xsl] XML generation from a text file

[Frederic Laurent <fl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
> I have a plain text file as following.
> I want to read the text file line by line and add each line
> as a value of element of an xml document.
>
> The generated xml document will be as following.
>
> Any suggestion?

Do you like Python ?
I could make it smaller but I had used the minidom package to
keep a relationship with xml :)

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import os, sys
import xml.dom.minidom

f=file(sys.argv[1])
result = file(sys.argv[2],"w")

doc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
root=doc.createElementNS("", "someURIs")
doc.appendChild(doc.createProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet",
	"type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"multiple_input3.xsl\""))
doc.appendChild(root)

# read lines from in file
for line in f.readlines():
	node = doc.createElementNS("", "file")
	node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(line))
	root.appendChild(node)
	
# write result
result.write(doc.toprettyxml(indent="  ",encoding="ISO-8859-1"))
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python foo.py Folder_structure.xml Folder_structure.txt

does it...

but it's a xml centric solution, no place here for xsl...

cheers



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