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> 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)... > XSLT 2.0 has this ability, though I found it had a steep learning curve. The biggest problem is that there are no standards for text documents, so it's rather tricky to create a standard dealing with a non-standard device. When we wrote xmlLinguist (which does bi-directional translation, btw), we tried to think of the various proprietary oddities in text documents, and believe me there were a few. One of the strangest was a header line that had an "end" line that wasn't a line, was just the text "END". So we had to treat the header as a normal line and then watch for the occurrence of an "END" later in the document. And child lines also had this "END". It was a rather odd document. At any rate, even with the knowledge we had, there were still exceptions cropping up on various conversions. A standard could be started, but it would quickly grow to be a rather messy piece of work. I suspect this is why it's never really been attempted and the job of easily converting Text-to-XML has been left to the 3rd party world. Bryce K. Nielsen SysOnyx, Inc. (www.sysonyx.com) Makers of xmlLinguist, the Text-to-XML Translator http://www.sysonyx.com/products/xmllinguist
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