Combining multiple xml documents into one large one with a batch file

Question

I have a directory of 86 xml files with the same columns and formatting that I need to combine into one large xml file. I am very inexperienced with batch files, and my firs

Answer 1

Here's a quick batch command that combines all the xml files in the current directory into a single file CombineXML.bat. It wraps all the XML files with a new root node ("").

In your case, however, you may not want to introduce this new layer to the XML. If all you're doing is viewing the XML in a single area (eg: in a web browser) then this works.

--CombineXML.bat--
@echo on
rem ==clean up==
erase %0.xml
rem ==add the root node==
echo ^ > %0.txt
rem ==add all the xml files==
type *.xml >> %0.txt
rem ==close the root node==
echo ^<^/root^> >> %0.txt
rem ==rename to xml==
ren %0.txt %0.xml