Converting Flat Files to and from XML
by Michael C. Rawlins
Using XML with Legacy Business Applications
- Copyright
- Advance Praise for Using XML with Legacy Business Applications
- Preface
- Introduction
- Converting XML to CSV
- Converting CSV to XML
- Learning to Read XML Schemas
- Rope, Anyone?
- A Few Different Document Approaches
- DTD Refresher
- Foundation Concepts and Terminology
- General Features
- Simple Content Elements
- Complex Content Elements
- Understanding Namespaces
- Structuring Schemas
- Less Commonly Used W3C XML Schema Language Features
- Is There Data or Not?
- Reference
- Resources
- Validating against Schemas
- Refining the Design
- Why Refine the Design?
- Making XML the Common Format
- Analyzing the Legacy Non-XML Grammars
- Describing the Legacy Non-XML Grammars
- Representing the Legacy Non-XML Grammars in XML
- Additional DOM Processing Considerations and Strategies
- Multilingual Issues
- Error Handling Strategy
- High-Level Design
- Detail Design
- Java Implementation
- C++ Implementation
- References
- Resources
- Converting CSV Files to and from XML, Revisited
- CSV to XML: Functionality and Operation
- XML to CSV: Functionality and Operation
- Describing the File Formats
- Schema Examples
- High-Level Design Considerations
- CSV to XML: Detail Design
- XML to CSV: Detail Design
- New DataCell Methods and Derived Classes
- Java Implementation
- C++ Implementation
- Enhancements and Alternatives
- Resources
- Converting Flat Files to and from XML
- Flat File to XML: Functionality and Operation
- XML to Flat File: Functionality and Operation
- Describing the File Formats
- Schema Examples
- High-Level Design Considerations
- Flat File to XML: Detail Design
- XML to Flat File: Detail Design
- New DataCell Methods and Derived Classes
- Java Implementation
- C++ Implementation
- Enhancements and Alternatives
- Resources
- Converting EDI to and from XML
- Overview of the X12 EDI Syntax and Standards
- X12 to XML: Functionality and Operation
- XML to X12: Functionality and Operation
- Describing the File Formats
- Schema Examples
- Supplemental Data Store for Control Numbers
- High-Level Design Considerations
- X12 to XML: Detail Design
- XML to X12: Detail Design
- New DataCell Methods and Derived Classes
- Java Implementation
- C++ Implementation
- Enhancements and Alternatives
- Reference
- Resources
- Converting from One XML Format to Another with XSLT
- Using the Conversion Techniques Together
- Building XML Support into a Business Application
- Security, Transport, Packaging, and Other Issues
- GNU General Public License
- Pseudocode Conventions
- COM Essentials for the Non-COM Programmer
- Bibliography
- Credits
Chapter 8. Converting Flat Files to and from XML
Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.
—John Fleischman
This chapter presents utilities for converting flat files to and from XML documents. A generalized grammar for describing flat file logical organization is discussed and used in the design.
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