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Billy DeanSubject: Need help converting CSV to Nested XML
Author: Billy Dean
Date: 13 Oct 2007 10:27 AM
Originally Posted: 13 Oct 2007 10:19 AM
I have been able to use the CSV to XML to convert to XML, but can't create the nested XML as I need to. Here's my problem:

Input file:

Network: 10.0.0.0, Name0, ... 5 fields
Network: 11.0.0.0, Name1, ... 5 fields
Network: 12.0.0.0, Name2, ... 5 fields
Host: 12.0.0.1, HostName1, ... 10 fields
Host: 12.0.0.2, HostName2, ... 10 fields
Host: 12.0.0.3, HostName3, ... 10 fields
Network: 13.0.0.0, Name3, ... 5 fields
Host: 13.0.0.1, HostName4, ... 10 fields

I can use the CSV to XML and get the following:

<Network>
<Network range=10.0.0.0 name='Name0' ... 5 attributes/>
<Network range=11.0.0.0 name='Name1' ... 5 attributes/>
<Network range=12.0.0.0 name='Name2' ... 5 attributes/>
<Network range=13.0.0.0 name='Name3' ... 5 attributes/>
</Network>
<Host>
<Host address=12.0.0.1 name=Hostname1 ... 10 attributes/>
<Host address=12.0.0.2 .../>
<Host address=12.0.0.3 .../>
<Host address=13.0.0.1 .../>
</Host>

But this is not what I want. I want the Hosts to be nested under the Network like this:

<Network>
<Network 10.0.0.0 ... />
<Network 11.0.0.0 ... />
<Network 12.0.0.0 ... >
<Host address=12.0.0.1 .../>
<Host address=12.0.0.2 .../>
<Host address=12.0.0.3 .../>
</Network 12.0.0.0>
<Network 13.0.0.0 ... >
<Host address=13.0.0.1 .../>
</Network 13.0.0.0>
</Network>



This stems from the perceived limitation in the CSVtoXML tool that doesn't allow me to create 'Child-elements' during the initial conversion.

Is there something I'm missing? Or is there an easy XSLT transform to deal with this?

Thanks,

Billy

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Tony LavinioSubject: Need help converting CSV to Nested XML
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 15 Oct 2007 12:04 AM
This is a standard XSLT grouping problem.
See http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.xml for
details.

This can be handled by putting the converter URL as the
input to XSLT, or by using the Pipeline to link together
the conversion and the grouping steps.

 
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