RE: FAQ candidate? parsing line-separated text files (was: R

Francis,

Clever solution.

I see one problem:
The solution doesn't work if any of the file names
in xmlDir.lst contains an ampersand 
(e.g., "Tom & Jerry.doc"), since an external parsed 
general entity (e.g., xmlDir.lst) can not contain
an unescaped ampersand.

Perhaps there is a DOS command that is similar to
the Unix sed command; your batch program could then
replace each ampersand in the xmlDir.lst file with "&".
I'm not aware of such a DOS command.

Bob

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Bob Lyons
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Unidex Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> 
> This is a pure DOS / XML / XSLT way of creating an XML file containing
> directory listing. It's based on my earlier solution which didn't
> tolerate embedded spaces in filenames.
> 
> The solution now takes a line-separated text file and 
> processes it into
> an XML file. Doing this requires two uses of XML entities, firstly a
> system entity to read the text file into the content of an 
> XML element;
> and secondly a character entity to access the acii 10 
> linefeed character
> to parse that content. 
> 
> For anyone unfamiliar with system entities, run the 
> xmlDir.bat, then see
> the difference between looking at xmlDir.xml in a text 
> processor and in
> an xml processor like IE5. Ta-da...
> 
> I was never very fond of XML entities so this was a useful 
> exercise for
> me, I hope it helps others too.
> 
> Francis.


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