XML Processing, Converting and Rewriting XML

[aanand kannan]

Hi
The source XML to be converted to the following Target XML format.
Requirement examples:

<Ship_Name> Anand </Ship_Name>
To be converted to:
<variable name="Ship_Name"> Anand </variable>

and

<Start_Date> 20080216 </Start_Date>
To be converted to:
<variable name="Start_Date"> 20080216 </variable>

The above tags are two exmaples in the XML doc.
Consider, the tag names will be generic. There may be some 150 different tags. Really huge.

I would like to have a generic java program that reads these tags and write to a target xml. I could find only hard coded programs.

It would be great if I could get a program that could handle a really huge XML. That shall give me a jump start.
Thanks in Advance.

Anand [e-mail]

[ February 19, 2008: Message edited by: aanand kannan ]
[ February 19, 2008: Message edited by: aanand kannan ]

[Ilja Preuss]

Why do you need it to be a Java program? This should be really simple using XSL-T...

[William Brogden]

If you are really talking about XML files so large that they are too big for XSLT, you might find one of the "pipeline" processing toolkits such as ServingXML to be useful.

For an introduction to "pipeline processing" of XML, here is my article on the subject.

Bill