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Fred FooSubject: Nesting of records from fixed length file conversion
Author: Fred Foo
Date: 15 Jul 2012 07:46 PM
Originally Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:25 PM
I'm using a custom converter to transform a fixed field layout file to xml. The sample input file has different record types, A and B. I've seen from some of the other posts how to use pattern matching to differentiate the record types, and that works well. What I can't seem to do is nest the B records within the A records (B recs should be a child of A). This is the input:
A1234567Diane
B100.00Shoes
B123.00Suit
A1234567Chris
B100.00Saucepan
B123.00Frying Pan

This is the output I'm getting from the conversion:
<ROOT>
<A>
<ACCTNO>1234567</ACCTNO>
<NAME>Diane</NAME>
</A>
<B>
<AMOUNT>100.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Shoes</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
<B>
<AMOUNT>123.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Suit</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
<A>
<ACCTNO>1234567</ACCTNO>
<NAME>Chris</NAME>
</A>
<B>
<AMOUNT>100.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Saucepan</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
<B>
<AMOUNT>123.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Frying Pan</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
</ROOT>

Is there a way of specifying the hierarchy of the output nodes in a custom conversion to xml? Here's what it should look like:
<ROOT>
<A>
<ACCTNO>1234567</ACCTNO>
<NAME>Diane</NAME>
<B>
<AMOUNT>100.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Shoes</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
<B>
<AMOUNT>123.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Suit</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
</A>

<A>
<ACCTNO>1234567</ACCTNO>
<NAME>Chris</NAME>
<B>
<AMOUNT>100.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Saucepan</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
<B>
<AMOUNT>123.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Frying Pan</DESCRIPTION>
</B>
</A>
</ROOT>

thanks
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Ivan PedruzziSubject: Nesting of records from fixed length file conversion
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 13 Jul 2012 02:41 PM
Hi Fred,

You may need to use either XSLT or XQuery for performing these kind of tasks.

If you zip a sample of your input data and your .conv file we can get you started.

Hope this helps
Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team
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Fred FooSubject: Nesting of records from fixed length file conversion
Author: Fred Foo
Date: 15 Jul 2012 07:51 PM
Thanks Ivan. If it can't be done directly with the .conv, I'd like to do it with xquery if possible. I'll upload the .conv, and input and output files


UnknownfixedLength.zip
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Ivan PedruzziSubject: Nesting of records from fixed length file conversion
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 16 Jul 2012 09:28 PM
The following query should help

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team


declare variable $doc := doc("converter:fixedLength.conv?input.txt");

declare function local:tx($tx as element(*, xs:untyped)? ) as element(*, xs:untyped)*
{
let $next := $tx/following-sibling::*[1]
return
if (local-name($next) = 'TXN' ) then
(
$next,
local:tx($next)
)
else ()
};

<ROOT>
{
for $cust in $doc/ROOT/CUST
return
<CUST>
{
$cust/*
}
<Transactions>
{
local:tx($cust)
}
</Transactions>
</CUST>
}
</ROOT>


--------------------------
Result


<ROOT>
<CUST>
<ACCTNO>1234567</ACCTNO>
<NAME>Diane</NAME>
<Transactions>
<TXN>
<AMOUNT>100.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Shoes</DESCRIPTION>
</TXN>
<TXN>
<AMOUNT>123.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Suit</DESCRIPTION>
</TXN>
</Transactions>
</CUST>
<CUST>
<ACCTNO>1234567</ACCTNO>
<NAME>Chris</NAME>
<Transactions>
<TXN>
<AMOUNT>100.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Saucepan</DESCRIPTION>
</TXN>
<TXN>
<AMOUNT>123.00</AMOUNT>
<DESCRIPTION>Frying Pan</DESCRIPTION>
</TXN>
</Transactions>
</CUST>
</ROOT>
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Fred FooSubject: Nesting of records from fixed length file conversion
Author: Fred Foo
Date: 17 Jul 2012 08:16 PM
Many thanks Ivan, that does the trick
   
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