Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Requirements

The general requirement for this utility is to convert a CSV file containing one or more logical documents to one or more XML instance documents, each representing a single logical document. This is a significant improvement over the utility presented in Chapter 3, which was restricted to handling a single logical document. In addition, many of the restrictions on both the CSV file format and the grammar of the resulting XML document are removed. Here's a summary of the required functionality.

• Inputs: A CSV file in uniform Row/Column organization, that is, each row has the same column entries. Records are of variable length, and columns are separated by a specified terminator. Column contents may be delimited by a text delimiter ...