converting csv to xml with an xsd

Question

I am trying to find a reusable way of taking a CSV file and generating an XML file from it that conforms to a specified XSD. I haven\'t really found a reusable approach for

Answer 1

Well, I don't really have a ready-made, out-of-the-box solution for this, but maybe:

• read your CSV file with a library like FileHelphers; for this, you need to create a class MyDataType which describes the columns in the CSV, and you get an array of MyDataType

• if you decorate that class with the proper XML serialization attributes like [XmlIgnore], [XmlAttribute] and so forth, you might be able to just simply serialize out the resulting array of MyDataType into an XML that conforms to your XML schema

• or if that doesn't work, you could create another class that maps to your XML requirements (generate it from the XSD you have), and just simply define a mapping between the two types MyDataType (from your CSV) and MyXmlDataType (for your XML) with something like AutoMapper

It's not boiler-plate - but fairly close, and you could possibly make that pretty much a "framework" to just simply plug in your own types (if you need to do this frequently).