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Re: converting a proprietary config file to XML


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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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