XML Writer

Writing XML Files

The XML Writer plugin is an extremely simple implementation of an XML output for arbitrary tabular data. In order to do so, use the following target definition:

<Target config="">file://[path to output file.xml]</Target>

Here, it is important the file name ends with .xml, otherwise the XML Writer will not "feel responsible" for writing the output. The prefix xml:// is equivalent to using the file:// prefix. The file name still has to end with .xml.

There are currently no possibilites of configuring the output, so that the output fields always look the following way:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Table>
  <Entries>
    <Entry>
      <[field 1]>[value 1]</[field 1]>
      <[field 2]>[value 2]</[field 2]>
      ...
    </Entry>
  </Entries>
</Table>

Where field 1 corresponds to the field definitions in the configuration file, and the value 1 to the evaluated expression (as in any other case, too, like CSV).

Obviously, this could use some extending...

Example:

<Target config="">file://output.xml</Target>