Ladies and Gents, I need some guidance and a sample snippet if possible.
Basically I want to convert an xml file to a fixed length text file.
The following is a sample of what I am trying to do.
Note the data for each element/attribute must be in the exact start
position stated below. For example, if there is a scenario where child2
does not show on the input xml file, then if child3 is present, it must
still start in position 39.

Position of data for output file:
field: child1 start 1 length 7
field: att1 start 12 length 5
field: child2 start 27 length 12
field: child3 start 39 length 15
field: att2 start 56 length 3

Input:
<parent att1="foo">
  <child1>aChild</child1>
  <child2>anotherChild</child2>
  <child3 att2="bar">yetAnotherChild</child3>
</parent>

Output:
aChild foo anotherChildyetAnotherChild bar

I would really appreciate any help on this.

Thanks
Garvin Franco
garvin_franco@hotmail.com

Hi Garvin Franco ,

Have heard about weblogic integrator. This product is for MOM. In this product , 'FormatBuilder' is the module.
Which does follwoing type of conversions .
i.e. From 'Binary stream' to 'XML' and 'XML' to 'Binary'.

you can configure amny ways using thro Swing UI they have provided .

Output of this tool , are java files . you can use those java files directly .

Freeware is available on net visit www.bea.com

Regards,
Abhijit

Hi Abhijit,
            I was looking for an open solution to experiment with. I am using the Xalan processor and I am looking for an example of a stylesheet that would give me the output specified in my original message. Do you have any clues?

Garvin