[xsl] fx2sx (postprocessing the output of csv to xml converters with xsl)

[Friedhelm Düsterhöft <fd at msdd dot net>]

Hi all,

for those of you somewhat tired of programming xslt stylesheets there might be a solution for a special class of problems: postprocessing the output of csv to xml converters.

In fact these converters usually produce some kind of flat xml. So it may be your task as a programmer to get some structure into this (renaming tags, stuffing data from elements into attributes or vice versa, inserting some additional elements, dropping others and perform grouping operations based on field values). As this process is dependend on the converter and the target structure you have usually to write a very specialized stylesheet to do the job. It's not rocket science but time consuming and - worst of all - boring. This is the point where my stylesheet generating stylesheet comes into play.
All you have to do is to describe your source and target structure in XML and let fx2sx do the job.

You can review / download it at http://www.msdd.net/fx2sx.
You can monitor this project at http://freshmeat.net/projects/fx2sx if you like to be informed on updates / changes / bugfixes.

Any comments and suggestions highly appreciated.


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