Import from Text Files
The steps for importing a text file into an XML file are the following:
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Go to menu
The Select text file dialog will be
displayed.
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Select the URL of the text file.
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Select the encoding of the text file.
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Click the OK button.
The Import Criteria dialog will be displayed:
Import from text file
The input data is displayed in a tabular form. The XML Import
Preview panel contains an example of what the generated XML will look
like. The names of the XML elements and the transformation of the first 5 lines from the
text file are displayed. All data items in the input will be converted by default to
element content, but this can be over-ridden by clicking on the individual column
headers. Clicking once on a column header will cause the data from this column to be
used as attribute values on the row elements. Clicking a second time - the column's data
will be ignored when generating the XML file. You can cycle through these three options
by continuing to click on the column header. If the data column will be converted to
element content, the header will contain the <> symbol. If the data column
will be converted to attribute content, the header will contain the = symbol. If
it will be skipped, the header will contain an x.
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Select the field delimiter for the import settings:
- comma
- semicolon
- tab
- space
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Set other optional settings of the conversion.
The dialog offers the following settings:
- First row contains field names - If the option is checked,
you'll notice that the table has moved up. The default column headers are replaced
(where there is information) by the content of the first row. In other words, the
first row is interpreted as containing the field names. The changes are also visible
in the preview of the XML document. To return to default (where the first row is
interpreted as not containing field names), simply uncheck the option.
- Change labels - If the above option is set, the first row of
the input file contains presentation names and these will be used as tokens in the
created XML files, otherwise some generic heading names will be used. This button
opens a new dialog, allowing you to edit the names of the root and row elements,
change the XML name and the conversion criterion.
The XML names can be edited by
double-clicking on the desired item and entering the required label. The conversion
criterion can also be modified by selecting from the drop-down list one of the
options: ELEMENT, ATTRIBUTE or
SKIPPED.
- Open in editor - If checked, the new XML
document created from the imported text file will be opened in the editor.
- Save in file - If checked, the new XML
document will be saved at the specified path.
Note: If only Open in
editor is checked, the newly created document will be opened in the
editor, but as an unsaved file.