Re: XML to LDIF

[Halvor Dahl <halvor@skolelinux.no>]

Geert Stappers wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:26:50AM +0200, Halvor Dahl wrote:
>  
>
> > Geert Stappers wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:09:02PM +0200, Halvor Dahl wrote:
> > >
> > > <snip/> 
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > TODO:  Write a program for importing data from XML interface to
> > > > Skolelinux' import format to ldap which is a comma/colon separated
> > > > file.  Person to do it will be assigned later.
> > > >  
> > > >        
> > > Please solve that problem in two stages
> > >
> > > * XML to LDIF conversion
> > > * LDIF import
> > >
> > >      
> > By "import format to ldap which is a comma/colon separated file" I meant
> > LDIF (although I did not know the name when I wrote it).  The activity is
> > to write the XML to LDIF conversion.  Sorry if this was unclear.  But then
> > again, what can you expect?  I am a salesman, not a technician.
> >    
>
>  [1]
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> At Freshmeat.net is no XML LDIF project [2].
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> There are some 'something to LDIF convertors' [3].
>
>
> My research did stop when I realized that
> that there is XSLT.
>
> Other people may find other promising technologies,
> I hope we will hear from them.
>  


Sorry for being ignorant, but I would think that an average programmer
could easily write something like this in a few hours by parsing the XML
for the required data and dumping them into an LDIF file.  But then again,
what would I know?


Halvor