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RE: Standard means to convert text to XML?

  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • To: "'Brett Zamir'" <brettz9@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:58:05 +0100

RE:  Standard means to convert text to XML?
> 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?

If the syntax of the input text file can be described using regular
expressions, then you can use unparsed-text() and xsl:analyze-string in XSLT
2.0.

If they can't, then you can write a grammar in JavaCC...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



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