Oliver,

Since your initial document is not XML, I don't think you could use XSL for
this transformation.

The typical way to do this kind of up-translation is to use a pattern
matching language to process the ini-file,  write out your XML as best you
can to match the structure required by the DTD, then parse the result to
make sure the output is error-free.

I typically use OmniMark, since it has a powerful pattern matching language
and a built-in XML parser, but you could do this with Perl as well,
especially with the XML module.

Hope this helps.

Rick Geimer
National Semiconductor
rick.geimer@xxxxxxx

"Bruening, Oliver" wrote:

> i have to generate a xml-document with a given dtd from data which has
> an ini-file structure (best case; the data comes from an ibm host ...).
>
> how can this to done in an elegant way ? my first idea was to traverse
> through the dtd and to add the fitting elements to the xml-file. is this
> the right way ? any examples or hints around ?
>
> regards
>   oliver bruening
>
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