CSV2XML Ant Task w/ Header Row

This is a fork of the CSV2XML Ant task project located at: https://code.google.com/p/csv2xml-anttask/ under the Apache License, Version 2.

Download built csv2xml-anttask.jar

Additions to this project include support for Header Rows in the CSV that better map the CSV content to XML. The original Ant Task would take CSV such as:

Name,Working Title
Matt,Web Developer

And convert it into the XML:

<csv>
    <row>
        <c1>Name</c1>
        <c2>Working Title</c2>
    </row>
    <row>
        <c1>Matt</c1>
        <c2>Web Developer</c2>
    </row>
</csv>

With the new Header row support, the XML output would be, with root parameter set to "employees" and row set to "employee":

<employees>
    <employee>
        <name>Matt</name>
        <working_title>Web Developer</working_title>
    </employee>
</employees>

Usage Example

In ant Ant build file with the built csv2xml-ant.jar available in the same directory or the classpath. The Ant snippet below would be what would work for the above example. If the name of the csv were employees.csv, the output would be stored in an employees.xml file.

<taskdef name="csv2xml" classname="ant.CSV2XMLTask">
    <classpath location="csv2xml-ant.jar" />
</taskdef>
<csv2xml dest="." delim="," root="employees" row="employee">
    <fileset dir="./">
        <include name="**/*.csv"/>
    </fileset>
</csv2xml>

Parameters

dest String, Required. Defines the output destination.

delim String, Required. Defines the characte delimiter in the input CSV file.

root String, Default: "csv". Defines the element name of the root node of the XML output.

row String, Default: "row". Defines the element name of each row in the XML output.

headerRow Boolean, Default: true. Will use the values in the first row of the CSV file as the element names for each column in the XML output.

skipEmpty Boolean, Default: true. Will leave off XML nodes for empty columns in the CSV input file.

lowerCaseTags Boolean, Default: true. Will Lower Case the headerRow titles in the element names in the XML output.

Building

The csv2xml uses the Ant build tool.

To compile: ant

To build the jar: ant deploy which will build the Jar in the deploy folder.