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RE: converting a proprietary config file to XML

• To: "'Mike Fitzgerald'" <mikefz@w...>
• Subject: RE: converting a proprietary config file to XML
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:25:16 +0100
• Cc: "'Igor'" <logastellus@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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No, sorry, it's not published. It wasn't slides, it was a live
demonstration.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Fitzgerald [mailto:mikefz@w...] 
> Sent: 12 May 2004 15:52
> To: Michael Kay
> Cc: 'Igor'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  converting a proprietary config file to XML
> 
> This is a nice hack. Are your slides for this presentation 
> published somewhere? -Mike
> 
> Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> > This sort of conversion can be done very nicely in XSLT 
> 2.0: I showed a very
> > similar example in my tutorial at XML Europe.
> > 
> > 1. read the file using the unparsed-text() function
> > 2. split it into lines using the tokenize() function
> > 3. analyze each line using the <xsl:analyze-string> instruction
> > 4. group the resulting lines hierarchically using the 
> <xsl:for-each-group>
> > instruction, within a recursive template so you do the 
> grouping repeatedly
> > at each level of hierarchy.
> > 
> > Michael Kay 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Igor [mailto:logastellus@y...] 
> >>Sent: 12 May 2004 14:15
> >>To: xml-dev@l...
> >>Subject:  converting a proprietary config file to XML
> >>
> >>Perhaps someone here can help me?  I've posted this on
> >>newsgroups and thru IRC and no responses so far.
> >>
> >>I have a "*"-delimited config file for our internal
> >>app.  The syntax is as follows:
> >>
> >>param1*param2*value=3
> >>param1*param2*param3*value=4
> >>param1*value=1
> >>param2*value=3
> >>
> >>etc..
> >>
> >>What's the best way of doing this?  As seen from the
> >>example above, this lends itself to a very nice
> >>tree-based representation.  So I tried using an
> >>acyclic graph but got bogged down converting it to
> >>tree, the
> >>original idea was to first convert it to a tree, then
> >>traverse the tree xml-tagging it along the way.  Is
> >>that a good idea?
> >>
> >>Are there better ideas?  Thanks for your help.
> >>
> >>
> >>	
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