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Re: Conversion tools
- From: Rod Davison <rdavison@sprint.ca>
- To: "''xml-dev@lists.xml.org' '" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:58:18 -0400
An interesting problem, ordinary text to XML.
In my opinion (which may be totally surreal) it is a quantum leap to go from
(1) conversion of one mark-up system to XML; to (2) conversion of plain text
to XML.
Unless you are talking about simple format triggered conversions like a block
of text gets converted to a <para> element or something like that, it seems
that you need some sort of text content understanding to decide how to map
the text to a document structure.
Perhaps I missed your point?
On Monday 23 July 2001 12:20 pm, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> Well not sure how you would convert unmarked text to XML, if you have any
> ideas, let me know. But in Perl there are API for converting CSV and
> Excel, XML::Excel and XML::CSV as well as XML::SAXDriver::CSV and
> XML::SAXdriver::Excel.
> There are commercial and maybe some freeware tools that do that for you,
> but not sure if they provide APIs in other languages.
>
> Ilya
>
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