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Re: Standard means to convert text to XML?

• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• To: "Brett Zamir" <brettz9@y...>
• Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:38:32 +0200

Well, I remember that there was a W3C note on this, it was basically
submitted by a Finnish company that had an XML format that described
the inputs structure as a combination of EBNF, Regex, and some XSL-T
like semantics. I googled but I couldn't find it. It was probably
about 2002 that it was looking promising. I thought for some reason
this avenue had been taken up again last year but since nobody is
mentioning it I guess not.


Current examples with XSL-T 2.0 and FXSL - json to xml with fxsl

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/05/dimitre_novatchevfxsl_jsontoxm.html
however the referrenced link to the livespaces space does not work,
and I cannot see anything on the sourceforge site
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/

There are various tools that will convert any text to XML, but the XML
you get out isn't very useful (obviously)

Perhaps also something like Generative XPath would work
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200707/msg00097.html as a basis
for getting out the structure of non-xml formats.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen


On 8/14/07, Brett Zamir <brettz9@y...> wrote:
> 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)...
>
> thanks,
> Brett
>
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