• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:37:54 -0400

At 2012-09-22 16:39 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>David Lee wrote:
>
> > http://www.xmlsh.org/CommandCsv2xml
>
>Thanks David. I downloaded your tool and ran it on a tab-delimited text file:
>
>csv2xml -tab books.tab
>
>Out popped the XML version.
>
>Wow!
>
>It can't get any simpler than that.
>
>Do you have an idea for its speed relative to doing the same thing 
>using XSLT?

I haven't used David's tool, but if you want to compare a pure XSLT 
solution I posted one here a couple years ago:

   http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/#csv

It is published as a template to be called by another stylesheet.

>Is it faster? Slower?

Dunno.

>My customer's tab-delimited text files are huge. I need something 
>that is fast.

This may not help you, then.  I'll be curious to hear your analysis.

I hope you find it helpful, if nothing else than to rule out XSLT 2 
because of speed.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


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• References:
  • Validating tab-delimited text files against an XML Schema?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • RE: Validating tab-delimited text files against an XML Schema?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>