Open source software to convert text files to XML

[Former Member]

Hi all, I am not sure if this is the right section.

My question is, do you know of any free (open source) software to

convert text files to XML?

Thanks in advanced for you replies.

[Former Member]

hi,

- if the content of the txt file is in xml format you don't need such a tool.

- if the content of the text file is an unstructured text stream there can be no such tool.

- if the content of the text file is in any known and defined (but not XML) structured form, try to find a specific existing converter to XML for that.

- if the content of the text file is in an undefined but structured form or if you don't want to pay for the aforementioned transformer, get yourself any scripting language(e.g. PHP), learn regular expressions and parse the text file to XML you'll get maximum capabilities with that approach.

my 2 cents,

anton

[athavanraja]

check this out

http://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2xml/