A7Soft csv2xml 1.01

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gertone 2007-01-23 15:21:30

Lot of work still to be done

I must say I was a bit disappointed using this tool. The least I would expect is that it renders wellformed XML, but it doesn't do the simplest check.
If I have a CSV that has a title row with
A, B, C
the spaces will cause the tool to render
....< B>
spaces are not allowed in front of the element name in a start tag... so it is pretty useless unless you put in a postprocessor to clean that up

I would use this tool to get CSV files into a simple XML and make that fit my preferred XML using XSLT. But I can't rely on it because of the lack of wellformedness testing.

Get the spaces out of the tagnames, make the result XML wellformed and keep me posted... I might reconsider... until then this is a pretty useless tool. Sorry.