Subject: RE: Converting CSV to XML without hardcoding schema details in xsl
From: "Pantvaidya, Vishwajit" <vpantvai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:17:05 -0700
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Can anybody suggest how to convert CSV data in the format
Field1,Field2
Value11,Value12
to xml like
<Field1>Value11</Field1>
<Field2>Value12</Field2>
without hardcoding the fieldnames in the xsl?
I was thinking of something like
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize(., ',')">
<<xsl:value-of select="item-at($elementNames,index-of(?parent of current
node?,.))"/>>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</<xsl:value-of select="item-at($elementNames,index-of(?parent of current
node?,.))"/>>
</xsl:for-each>
where elementNames is a tokenized list of the fieldnames - but I am unable
to get it to work.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pantvaidya, Vishwajit
>Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:17 AM
>To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>Subject: Converting CSV to XML without hardcoding schema details in
>xsl
>
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to convert a CSV datafile into XMl format.
>The headers for the CSV data are in a file header.csv e.g. Field1,Field2
>The data is in a file Data.csv e.g.
>Value11,Value12
>Value21,Value22
>
>I need to convert the CSV data into xml output by creating xml elements
>using the names in the csv header and taking the corresponding values from
>the data file, so that I get an xml as follows:
>
><doc>
><line>
><Field1>Value11</Field1>
><Field2>Value12</Field2>
></line>
><line>
><Field1>Value21</Field1>
><Field2>Value22</Field2>
></line>
></doc>
>
>I was trying to see if I can do this without hardcoding the header names in
>the xsl. I reached upto the point where my xsl looks as below:
>
><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>xmlns:op="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/xquery-operators"
> xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/xquery-functions" version="2.0">
>
> <xsl:output name="xmlFormat" method="xml" indent="yes"
>omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:variable name="source1" select="'data.csv'"/>
> <xsl:variable name="elementNamesList" select="'Header.csv'"/>
> <xsl:variable name="encoding" select="'iso-8859-1'"/>
>
> <xsl:variable name="elementNames"
>select="tokenize(unparsed-text($elementNamesList,$encoding),',')"/>
> <xsl:variable name="src">
> <doc>
> <xsl:for-each
>select="tokenize(unparsed-text($source1,$encoding), '\r?\n')">
> <line>
> <xsl:for-each select="tokenize(., ',')">
> <<xsl:value-of
>select="op:item-at($elementNames,index-of(?parent of current
>node?,.))"/>>
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </<xsl:value-of
>select="item-at($elementNames,3)"/>>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </line>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </doc>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:result-document format = "xmlFormat" href = "src1.xml">
> <xsl:copy-of select="$src"/>
> </xsl:result-document>
> </xsl:template>
>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>In the yet-incomplete statement <xsl:value-of
>select="op:item-at($elementNames,index-of(?parent of current node?,.))"/>,
>I
>am trying to generate an xml element with the Nth field name from the
>headers name list for the Nth field value. Couple of issues/questions here:
>
>- I am getting the error "Cannot find a matching 2-argument
>function named {http://www.w3.org/2001/12/xquery-operators}item-at()" when
>I
>try to validate the xsl. What could be the reason?
>
>- How can I get the ?parent of current node? Needed to compute the
>index of the current data in the data record?
>
>- Is there any other better way to do it? Any way that I can do the
>same using xsl:element?
>
>In general, is this the only/best way or is there any other better way to
>achieve the same goal?
>
>
>Thanks and Regards,
>
>Vish.
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