Tool for converting Flat file to HTML

[Saurabh Agrawal]

Hi folks,
Can anyone tell me any tool which can be used to convert a flat file to HTML file or may be an XML file.

I am looking for a 3rd party tool, may be free tool.

So any thoughts on that.Please let me know if possible.
Saurabh

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

Since there were no responses for some time -

I would just write a Java/C++/C/Perl/??? program to read the file aas a string (assuming its not a huge file) and add a couple of head/body tags to make it HTML. This could also be called an XML file if you choose. This will be a solution to the use case described above.

If you need something more elaborate, then we need to discuss what exactly you have in mind. any special tags, any special formating you are looking for, stuff like that.

- m

[steve souza]

How would you like to format the file as html/xml? Would each row of the file be 1 row in the tabular data and this data would also be 1 column? If it is a delimited file there are open source database drivers that treat them as a db table that you can query.

If you can get it into an array which should be pretty easy if you can tell us what you would like the array to look like then you could use my FormattedDataSet API to easily convert the data into html, xml or any other text you would like.