Larry, that’s what I think, too.
Still, if one of the tools I downloaded will let me create a big fat, flat file as either CSV or XLS (yes, XLS, not XSL), then I can use the approach I implied and Bill suggested. Steve From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 2:21pm 14:21 To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Importing XML Data with Heterogeneous Nodes/Records ... << Is there an XSL file available, to define the data you are importing from? >> XSL files are stylesheet / transformation files to apply to XML, they don't document structure. I think you'd be looking for an XSD (Schema) file. But I'm pretty sure that R:Base only loads homogenous, unnested XML files (that is, XML that looks like database records) rather than arbitrarily complex XML files — I don't even know how it would approach loading those. There is a huge impedance mismatch between relational database data and complexly structured XML data. Each has its place, but converting one to the other is not trivial. -- Larry
