Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Requirements

The general requirement for this utility is to convert one or more XML instance documents, each representing a single logical document, into a single CSV file. As with the CSV to XML utility, this is a significant improvement over the utility presented in Chapter 2. Again, 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 directory containing one or more XML instance documents, each in a single file. All have the same grammar. The second input is an XML file description document (as discussed in Chapter 6) describing the XML documents and the CSV file to be produced.

• Processing: Each input Element corresponding ...