Is xslt good approach to convert text to xml structure?

Question

I am trying to find a better solution to convert a plain text (but with predefined lengths for each field) to xml. For example the input text can be \"Testuser new york

Answer 1

XSLT 2.0 is highly suitable for converting structured text to XML. You might like to the 2010 paper by Stephanie Haupt and Maik Stuehrenberg here:

http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol5/html/Haupt01/BalisageVol5-Haupt01.html

or my own 2008 paper

http://www.saxonica.com/papers/ideadb-1.1/mhk-paper.xml

for case studies.

I wouldn't normally attempt the task using XSLT 1.0, though as Dimitre's answer shows, it can be done in simple cases.