jencinas69@g... wrote:
> The text file is tab delimited

There are lots of ways then to build the XML but as you do not seem to 
intend to tell us what format you want here is a PHP code snippet that 
parses the tab delimited text and streams XML to the browser:

$lines = file('file.txt');

header('Content-Type: application/xml');
$xmlWriter = new XmlWriter();
$xmlWriter->openURI('php://output');
$xmlWriter->setIndent(True);
$xmlWriter->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
$xmlWriter->startElement('root');
foreach ($lines as $line) {
   $xmlWriter->startElement('row');
   foreach (explode("\t", rtrim($line)) as $item) {
     $xmlWriter->writeElement('col', $item);
   }
   $xmlWriter->endElement();
}
$xmlWriter->endElement();
$xmlWriter->endDocument();


XML looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
  <row>
   <col>Kibo</col>
   <col>Xibo</col>
  </row>
  <row>
   <col>Maho</col>
   <col>Jaffo</col>
  </row>
  <row>
   <col>1.5</col>
   <col>3.14</col>
  </row>
</root>

when this text

Kibo	Xibo
Maho	Jaffo
1.5	3.14

is parsed.

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