Best way to import XML Files

[John Esak]

George,
the command you have below will not work the way you think... you would use
such a command to copy all the *xml files to a directory called "big.xml".
What you are probably trying to do is con"cat"enate all the files into one
big file... I would do something like:

for name in *.xml
do
cat $name >>big.xml
done

(You might want to make sure big.xml is null before each run of this script.
Or put that into the head of the script. It's all short enough to do from
the command line, though.)

John

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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of George Simon
  Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:27 PM
  To: Filepro 2 List
  Subject: Best way to import XML Files


  I have to import and process several XML files at a time.
  What I'm planning to do now, since I don't know the name of the files, is:
  copy *.xml big.xml
  and parse the big.xlm file.
  Since there are no single-character field and record delimiters, what is
the best way to import this big.xml file?

  Thanks