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  Subject: convert flat file to XML - creating child/sibling relationships ?
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 27 Sep 2005 08:54 AM
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For EDIFACT we have a built-in adapter which does this natively.
It recognizes ALL of the releases from 93A to 04B, and handles
both V3 and V4 syntax. It's bi-directional, and even generates
comments in the XML for debugging purposes so you can understand,
for example, what RFF01 is supposed to be.
As far as multi-level output from C2XML, we've talked about this,
but we think that adding that also makes the tool unwieldly. We'd
rather see XSLT or XQuery, which are excellent for transforming
data, used for manipulation, and C2XML for conversion. Otherwise,
we're adding yet another thing to learn, and another level of
complexity, to the conversion step.
But we'll keep revisiting the idea, and maybe a simple solution
that satisfies the 80/20 rule will appear.
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bex_lilly_invoice_data(1).txt
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