RE: [xml-dev] text to xml conversion

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

I published a case-study of something similar at an IDEAlliance conference
in 2004 I think. Sadly IDEAlliance have removed all the proceedings of these
conferences from the open web (which I am sure will make it much harder for
them to attract speakers at future conferences), but I found a late draft of
this paper and put it on my own site at

http://www.saxonica.com/papers/ideadb-1.1/mhk-paper.xml

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ycao5@scs.carleton.ca [mailto:ycao5@scs.carleton.ca] 
> Sent: 01 June 2009 22:09
> To: Michael Kay
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] text to xml conversion
> 
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
>       Can you recommend some good tutorial on it? I want to 
> take a look at it and use it.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Yang
> 
> 
> Quoting Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>:
> 
> >>
> >>      I want to ask one question about covering text to xml 
> file. Is 
> >> there any way to attach a schema to a text document and 
> parse it into 
> >> xml according the rules defined in the schema? Can I find 
> such kind a 
> >> tool, otherwise I plan to write one myself. Please give me some 
> >> references. Thanks.
> >>
> >
> > You can use a compiler-compiler such as JavaCC or Yacc to 
> define the 
> > grammar for the text file, and to generate a parser in the 
> appropriate 
> > language; by defining appropriate events for the parser you 
> can then 
> > cause the output to be XML.
> >
> > However, most text files containing data have a syntax that can be 
> > described using regular expressions, and if this is this case it's 
> > probably more convenient to use the XSLT 2.0 functions 
> unparsed-text() 
> > and
> > analyze-string() to read and parse the text.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
> >
> >
> > 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > _
> >
> > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to 
> > support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the 
> > archives, you must subscribe before posting.
> >
> > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/
> > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org
> > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: 
> > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
> > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
> >
> 
> 
>