XML Import

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:58:16PM -0400, Scott Walker achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> If anyone has done anything like this and can share some guidance, I would
> appreciate it.  If you have an application or code that can be incorporated
> into my code that would make this process easier, I would be willing to pay
> for it.

Getting the XML into fP will be considerably easier with something like:

http://www.fairlite.com/fc/products/xml2csv/

That said, even in a CSV format, you're going to have no way of avoiding
"walking" the data structure to establish data elements' elationships, no
matter what format the data is massaged into.  There's no getting around
that fact.  When the data format changes from one DTD or Schema to the
another, all the relationships you're looking for change as well.

There is no magic bullet (TTBOMK) to get around this fact.  You'd pretty
much need AI to intelligently handle vastly differing formats without user
intervention, in terms of, "What do I do with this data?  Where does it go?
What am I looking for?"  All we can really do is make it a bit less painful
to deal with in fP formatting/parsing-wise--which my xml2csv does.  Try the
demo page.

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