Generating XML Instances from Flat Files

Enterprise applications such as banking, healthcare, and so on still use flat files to import/export data between applications. Flat files contain machine-readable data that is typically encoded in printable characters. There is a growing need for these applications to interact with XML-aware applications and Web services, and to satisfy this need these applications must convert flat file data to an XML format.

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#10	Robert Lambert commented on 4 Mar 2005 Working on EDIFACT to XML instance generation using XML Spy and other third party applications. Can this approach be used to convert EDIFACT to XML instance? and if possible how ?
#9	SriHari Uppalla commented on 4 Mar 2005 The Global Grid Forum Data Format Description Language (DFDL) is in the draft format now, ther's no implementation available . This article shows a complete solution and provides extensive source code to get startred on text to XML generation. Good job...
#8	Jim Myers commented on 3 Mar 2005 FYI: The Global Grid Forum Data Format Description Language (DFDL) group is working to standardize a schema plus annotation approach for interpreting text or binary data as XML. See https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dfdl-wg/ for the current status.
#7	Joe Gilbert commented on 24 Feb 2005 Excellent article.
#6	Jim Scatts commented on 23 Feb 2005 Very innovative article. Is there a next one in the series to show us solve more problems using the approach?
#5	Nagendra Shukla commented on 22 Feb 2005 Good One, reinforces the need and advantages of standards for data exchange. Its true that most current and NGN deployments are usings some standard/open interface, but there is so much legecy stuff waiting to get standard compliant. The need spans not only in B2B case or financial institution even in feature rich Voice apps (VXML2.0, SIP)need some way to communicate to legacy Telecom infrastructure (100% subuscriber at present).
#4	Tpox Mozambo commented on 22 Feb 2005 Very practical. Great article.
#3	Nikhil V. Kapre commented on 22 Feb 2005 Excellent article!! The author has written an article keeping in mind practical considerations that a software developer faces.
#2	Nikhil V. Kapre commented on 22 Feb 2005 Excellent article!! The author has written an article keeping in mind practical considerations that a software developer faces.
#1	Sandeep commented on 21 Feb 2005 Nice article. Can be used as starting point to develop application for real time. I have seen problem with flat files in real applications. Another advantage with Schema is that we can specify data range and validation logic.