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> I am trying to write an application that converts a CSV(or similar)it to > an XML one.The application looks for a character(the comma - - or anything > else specified in an Edit box - -), adds a starting and ending tag to the > line, and writes the line to the new XML file. in the end I should get an > XML file with the various elements.
{Your task has a number of subtasks. The first is parsing the input file into lines. You can leave that to a Tstringlist, if the files you need to handle are not in the multimegabyte size range. If they are you would be best served by using the good old Pascal Textfile routines, where a simple ReadLn( filevar, S ) gets you a line. The second is parsing a line into its elements, based on a separator character between the elements. This is also not so difficult to do, especially if you don't need to deal with quoted elements that may contain the separator. Search the newsgroup archives for "SplitString" for an example. Tstringlist.Delimitedtext may be of use here, but be warned that it considers any character <= #32 as a separator *in addition* to what you define as Delimiter. It can deal with quoted elements, though. The second subtask would end with a TStringlist instance containing the elements to store into the XML file for one line of the input file. This is the input for the third task: to create a first-level XML element containing the data. To write valid XML you need not only deal with proper nesting of XML tags, you also have to properly represent some characters that have special meaning in XML ('<' and '&' for instance). I can recommend Berend de Boers xml_generator class http://www.pobox.com/~berend/delphi for this task, it deals with all the nastiness behind the scenes and produces syntactically correct XML without the overhead of a DOM model implementation. There is something else you need: a list of column names, one name for each "column" in your XML file. These names will become the node names for the subnodes of the produced XML. Depending on your input files you may be able to get these names from the first line (which often is a header line giving the column names). Here is sketch (untested!) of the conversion routine: } type{: Callback for CSVToXML. If given the callback will be called after each processed line. @Param currentline is the 0-based number of the processed line @Param totallines is the total number of lines. This may be a raw estimate if the file is not completly loaded in memory. @Returns true to continue processing, false to stop it. } TProgressNotification = function
(currentline, totallines: Integer): Boolean of
object
; {-- CSVToXML ----------------------------------------------------------} {: Convert a delimiter-separated file of data to XML @Param csvfilename is the file to convert @Param xmlfilename is the xml file to create @Param aSeparator is the separator for the data @Param aRootNodeName is the name to use for the root node of the XML file. @Param columnnames is an optional list of column names to use as subnode names. If this parameter is nil the first line of the data file must contain a header line with the names to use. @Param onProgress is an optional callback to call afte each processed line. @Precondition csvfilename exists }{ Created 17.3.2003 by P. Below -----------------------------------------------------------------------} procedure
CSVToXML(const
csvfilename, xmlfilename: string
; const
aSeparator: Char; const
aRootNodeName: string
; const
columnnames: TStrings = nil
; const
onProgress: TProgressNotification = nil
); function
DoProgress(currentline, totallines: Integer): Boolean; begin
if
Assigned(onProgress) then
Result := onProgress(currentline, totallines) else
Result := true; end
; procedure
WriteDataline(const
line: string
; header: TStringlist; xml: TXMLGenerator); var
elements: TStringlist; i, max: Integer; begin
elements := TStringlist.Create; try
elements.Delimiter := aSeparator; elements.Delimitedtext := line; if
elements.count > header.count then
max := header.count else
max := elements.count; for
i := 0 to
max - 1 do
begin
xml.StartTag(header[i]); xml.AddData(elements[i]); xml.StopTag; end
; { For } finally
elements.Free; end
; end
; procedure
WriteData(data: TStringlist; xml: TXMLGenerator); var
header: TStringlist; firstline: Integer; i: Integer; begin
header := Tstringlist.Create; try
firstline := 0; if
assigned(columnnames) then
header.Assign(columnnames) else
begin
header.Delimiter := aSeparator; header.DelimitedText := data[0]; firstline := 1; end
; { Else } for
i := firstline to
data.count - 1 do
begin
WriteDataline(data[i], header, xml); if
not
DoProgress(i, data.count) then
Break; end
; { For } finally
header.Free; end
; end
; procedure
SaveStringToFile(const
S, filename: string
); var
fs: TFilestream; begin
fs := TFileStream.Create(filename, fmCreate); try
if
Length(S) > 0 then
fs.WriteBuffer(S[1], Length(S)); finally
fs.free end
; end
; { SaveStringToFile } var
xml: TXMLGenerator; // from xml_generator unit by Berend de Boers datafile: Tstringlist; begin
{ CSVToXML } if
not
FileExists(csvfilename) then
raise
Exception.CreateFmt('Input file %s not found', [csvfilename]); datafile := Tstringlist.Create; try
datafile.LoadfromFile(csvfilename); xml := TXMLGenerator.CreateWithEncoding(16 * 1024, encISO_8859_1); try
xml.StartTag(aRootNodeName); if
datafile.count > 0 then
WriteData(datafile, xml); xml.StopTag; SaveStringToFile(xml.AsLatin1, xmlfilename); finally
xml.Free; end
; finally
datafile.free; end
; end
; { CSVToXML }