We actually do just this in our program using Xalan. You can't process
the textfile directly. You must XML:ize the text first. We do it simply
by doing the following changes to the file in a separate program.
a.txt:
Dataobj1;instance1;date1;time1;number;type1;val1;val2;val3
Dataobj1;instance1;date2;time2;number;type1;val1;val2;val3
Becomes a.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding=" ISO-8859-1"?>
<file>
<line><![CDATA[Dataobj1;instance1;date1;time1;number;type1;val1;val2;val
3]]></line>
<line><![CDATA[Dataobj1;instance1;date2;time2;number;type1;val1;val2;val
3]]></line>
</file>
Here is the whole code for it in C++:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
string line;
int nLine = 0;
if (!cin.eof()) {
getline(cin, line);
nLine++;
if (line.substr(0, 5) == "<?xml") {
// Do plain copy
cout << line;
while (!cin.eof()) {
getline(cin, line);
nLine++;
cout << line << endl;
}
}
else {
cout << "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>" << endl;
cout << "<file>" << endl;
cout << " <line><![CDATA[" << line << "]]></line>" << endl;
while (!cin.eof()) {
getline(cin, line);
nLine++;
cout << " <line><![CDATA[" << line << "]]></line>" << endl;
}
cout << "</file>" << endl;
}
}
}
The transform looks something like this (this is for a fixed length
record file but you'll get the idea):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"
indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<records>
<xsl:for-each select="file/line">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:variable name="rectype" select="substring(text(),1,2)"/>
<xsl:when test="$rectype='00'">
<rec00 reference="{substring(text(),3,6)}"
name="{substring(text(),9,33)}" date="{substring(text(),50,6)}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$rectype ='10'">
<rec10 reference="{substring(text(),3,6)}"
name="{substring(text(),9,33)}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$rectype ='20'">
<rec20 reference="{substring(text(),3,6)}"
account="{substring(text(),9,10)}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$rectype ='30'">
<rec30 reference="{substring(text(),3,6)}"
date="{substring(text(),19,6)}" account="{substring(text(),9,10)}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$rectype ='40'">
<rec40 amount="{substring(text(),28,13)}"
refno="{substring(text(),3,25)}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$rectype ='50'">
<rec50 reference="{substring(text(),3,6)}"
date="{substring(text(),19,6)}" rowcount="{substring(text(),25,7)}"
sum="{substring(text(),32,15)}" account="{substring(text(),9,10)}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$rectype ='90'">
<rec90 reference="{substring(text(),3,6)}"
date="{substring(text(),19,6)}" rowcount="{substring(text(),25,7)}"
sum="{substring(text(),32,15)}" />
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</records>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Enjoy
/ Erik
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arunkumar Halebid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: den 17 juni 2004 06:19
> To: xalan-c-users@xml.apache.org
> Subject: transforming text input
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Is there a way to convert/transform a text source to directly to XML
using
> stylesheets and Xalan C++ ?
> * I want to build a cmd line utility that behaves like >transform
a.txt to
> a.xml using a.xsl
>
> I have input source that looks like:
> -----
> Dataobj1;instance1;date1;time1;number;type1;val1;val2;val3
> Dataobj1;instance1;date2;time2;number;type1;val1;val2;val3
> ...
>
> -----
> and wish to convert this text stream to something like:
>
> <file>
> <header>
> <period Date='date1' Time='time1' />
> </header>
> <mData>
> <mValue dn="Dataobj1=instance1" Type="type1">
> <mRes>val1 val2 val3</mRes>
> </mVale>
> <mValue dn="Dataobj1=instance2" Type="type1">
> <mRes>val1 val2 val3</mRes>
> </mData>
> ...
> <footer>
> <period Date='date2' Time='time2' />
> </footer>
> </file>
>
> Any leads would be helpful.
>
> regards,
> Arun
