ADV: XML to CSV Converter

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:55:58AM -0700, fp at casabellagallery.com achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> Aren't these things freely available?  A quick google search
> turned out dozens of options.  A7Soft xml2csv and csv2xml appear
> to be very popular.  I even came across some that run on *NIX

Show me where it says A7Soft xml2csv auto-decodes Base64 embedded
files.  Or changes the quote character (the screenshot at
http://www.a7soft.com/xml2csv.html shows only an option to -include-
quotes, but nothing to define what character is used), or change the field
separator (list research shows that "~" instead of "," is a common fix to
many problems, for instance.

Likewise, show me where A7Soft's csv2xml automatically encodes and embeds a
file into Base64, and also -accepts- non-standard characters used in place
of quotes or comma if your CSV needed to be written that way.

There were numerous design decisions made that make my versions very
filePro-friendly, as they were specifically designed with fP in mind, as
well as the specific needs of some of my clients.  Most of my clients doing
XML with fP (or needing to) have to deal with embedded files going in or
out, and that's just for starters--but it's a major sticking point for
them.

As with the usual comparisons between PuTTY and Anzio, the comparisons
aren't always valid when one offers features the other doesn't.

And I did look at an XML to CSV converter that was written in Java,
cross-platform.  Price was comparable for unlimited (and nearly twice
mine for source code) and I believe it still didn't do some of the things
mine does--or doesn't say it does on the site, at least.  That was the
RiceBridge one, I just checked.

Much of the stuff out there is meant to work with Excel.  fP has some other
considerations one has to account for, as to the environments in which it's
used.

And Jose...  "There's already a filePro community freely available, isn't
there?"  :)  You still thought you could do better.  I felt the same way
after looking at the XML<->CSV offerings out there.

Bests,

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