Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Requirements

For desktop applications, the most commonly supported format for importing and exporting data is the comma-separated value format. So, it makes a lot of sense to develop a utility that converts XML documents to CSV files.

The general requirement for this utility is to convert an XML document to a CSV file. Design considerations dictate that the XML document is of a specific format, that is, that it complies with a specific XML grammar. XML documents in other formats may be transformed into this format using XSLT. Here's a summary of the required functionality.

• Input: An XML instance document in a single file. The root Element may have any name. The root Element has one or more child Elements named Row, each representing a row in ...