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Re: Standard means to convert text to XML?

• From: Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...>
• To: Brett Zamir <brettz9@y...>
• Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:06:58 +0200

Brett Zamir a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> With all of the many and great tools for handling XML--XSLT, XQuery, 
> etc., I was wondering whether there were any W3C-standard means (or 
> plans for such means), to take a text document, attach a "schema" to 
> it in some manner (externally or with some code at the top) and then 
> parse the code according to rules defined in the schema into an XML 
> (or possibly other) language?
>
> While it is great to be able to transparently handle conversion FROM 
> XML, it'd be nice to be able to transparently convert non-XML INTO XML 
> (which could ideally use the same schema to round-trip back into the 
> original)...
>

hi,

perhaps you'll find RefleX suitable for your needs ; here are some 
example where regexp and XPath patterns are applied on some text input :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/tutorial-pipelinesAndFilters.html#textToXML
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/tutorial-pipelinesAndFilters.html#regexpTokenization

-- 
Cordialement,

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    • From: Brett Zamir <brettz9@y...>