Andrew Welch recently posted the XSLT solution of exactly this problem:

   http://ajwelch.blogspot.com/2007/02/csv-to-xml-converter-in-xslt-20.html


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev


"Scott Sauyet" <Scott.Sauyet@g...> wrote in message 
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> On May 29, 9:50 am, Johannes Koch <k...@w3development.de> wrote:
>> Scott Sauyet schrieb:
>>> But XSLT will only work on XML documents.  It won't even work on older
>>> HTML that doesn't conform to XML standards.
>>
>> The javax.xml.transform.Transformer has a method
>> transform(Source xmlSource, Result outputTarget)
>
> The OP asked, though,
>
>    Just wondering if anyone out there knows if it is possible to
>    convert a CSV to xml using XSLT?  [ ... ] I don't want to have
>    to use some external program or script to parse the csv first
>    if possible
>
> Java is my main coding language, and I do a lot of transforms in it.
> But the question was really about XSLT and its capabilities.  Although
> David Carlisle pointed out that there are techniques that could be
> used to import the CSV as text and parse that with some well-written
> templates and RegExes, I still believe the best answer to the question
> is that XSLT needs XML for input.
>
>  -- Scott
>