Conversion of XML to ASCII... Easy?

[ProPlus]

How easy for it to do the conversion above??

It could be in JAVA or in C++.

I would prefer to do a JAVA version of it.

[dilbert]

ProPlus said:

How easy for it to do the conversion above?? It could be in JAVA or in C++. I would prefer to do a JAVA version of it.

XML is usually ASCII.

[ProPlus]

dilbert said:

ProPlus said: How easy for it to do the conversion above?? It could be in JAVA or in C++. I would prefer to do a JAVA version of it. XML is usually ASCII.

the xml is coming to us in one format, I then need to convert it to a base version of ASCII so online reports can be produced, without anyone knowing there have been changes.

[jamieboy]

I'm with Dilbert...

Are you wanting to translate an XML file to (say) a .CSV file that you could import into Excel, or something like that?

[dilbert]

Still none the wiser.....


Theres an XML parser in one of the standard java libraries, IIRC.

Have a nose through the manual, javax.xml.parsers.

Hope that helps.

[ProPlus]

was thinking that the possible route would be to take the XML and using XSLT, a specfic style sheet for each xml I could produce pure ASCII as the output.

>> Edited by ProPlus on Tuesday 21st February 16:06

[gannmaster]

ProPlus said:

How easy for it to do the conversion above?? It could be in JAVA or in C++. I would prefer to do a JAVA version of it.

Your comments don't give much away about the project but it seems that what you're trying to do is deserialize the XML, and then serialize it again in a different format i.e. ASCII...

Depending on how complex the document is it could be something as simple as defining a class that matches the data in the XML doc, deserializing that doc into an object of the defined class, then re-serializing it (presumably with formatting) in ASCII... at least that would be my general approach

I just googled for Java XML reader and got tons of links....

[pdV6]

^ Wot he said.

XML is just a structured way of organising data. The files themselves are just ASCII.

XSLT sounds like the easiest way of doing what (I presume) you want

[zaktoo]

Although XSLT isn't really easy it may be your quickest solution. XSLT seems to have been written by a bunch of escapees from a mental institution whilst they were high on a combnation of crack and acid. It is probably exactly what you're needing here though...

Ciao

Zak

[anonymous-user]

www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/xml/xmlcsv.html

[oldskool]

XML documents can be encoded in a number of formats - ascii, UTF-8, UTF-16 etc. Its normally specified in the header. The default is UTF-8, eg.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

Sounds like Proplus just wants to convert the whole document to ascii, rather than parse the attributes/tags within it... First you need to find out what encoding your documents are in - they could already be ascii?

[robdickinson]

You can use dom/jdom to load the xml doc in java and run through the structure doing clevver stuff or just plain to text/ascii stuff but that sounds like overkill.

[anonymous-user]

oldskool said:

Sounds like Proplus just wants to convert the whole document to ascii, rather than parse the attributes/tags within it... First you need to find out what encoding your documents are in - they could already be ascii?

In that case: http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.nio.c