xmlLinguist offers a quick and simple way to get flat, text files into XML format. Once in XML format, all XML-based processes can easily be applied to the document to do whatever else might be needed on the message, such as applying a StyleSheet to transform the structure of the data, or display it in HTML, etc.

Please note that the translation from Flat File to XML is a direct translation of lines and fields. There is no transformation of the actual structure, just the format of the document (i.e. it's no longer a flatfile, it's an XML file). In other words, Field Elements in the XML appear in the same order they were in the Flat File. Lines elements appear one after the other, etc, as they were in the flat file. No actual transformation of the document occurs, just the format is now XML. If you need to change the structure, apply an XML Stylesheet to the newly create XML document.

• Visual Tree Layout
• Editable Visual Tree
• Multi-Node Property Window
• Map Execution
• Tree Node Manipulations

• Bi-direction Engine (ToText and ToXML)
• Introduce Hierarchy into the Flat File when translating to XML
• Automation through EXE or DLL
• Interactive and Silent Execution Modes