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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43005337-1">https://askubuntu.com/questions/581265/how-can-i-convert-a-csv-file-to-xml
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 provides a good overview. 
 
The approach is simple. 
 
1) Define your XML output format. 
 
2) Write code to ingest your data, format it, output your XML. 
 
Note: Because every XML file contains a unique format, you'll have to cobble together your own XML generation. 
 
Tip: Doing this in C# will likely take much more time, than using a tool like PERL which is built to work with strings.
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Hi TechIsaac; 
 
There is no built in out of the box solution to something like this. 
 
What does the text file look like and what is the schema of the XML file to be created look like? 
 
Fernando
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Below is a simple csv and xml file. 
 
The shops preference is c# 
csv 
 
Jack,35,United States 
Jill,22,United Kingdom 
 
xml 
&nbsp; 
&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt; 
&lt;Customers&gt; 
&nbsp; &lt;Customer&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Name&gt;Jack&lt;/Name&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Age&gt;35&lt;/Age&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Country&gt;United States&lt;/Country&gt; 
&nbsp;&lt;/Customer&gt; 
&nbsp;&lt;Customer&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Name&gt;Jill&lt;/Name&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Age&gt;22&lt;/Age&gt; 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;Country&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/Country&gt; 
&nbsp;&lt;/Customer&gt; 
&lt;/Customers&gt;
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Step 1: Set up a new class to represent each individual customer: 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43005513-1">public class Customer
{
 public string Name { get; set; }
 public string Age { get; set; }
 public string Country { get; set; }
}
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Step 2: Create a List&lt;Customer&gt; as a container for all the customers: 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43005513-2">var customers = new List&lt;Customer&gt;();
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Step 3: Get a CSV parsing library, like this one: 
<a href="https://github.com/jhilgeman/CSV/blob/master/CSV.cs" rel="ugc">https://github.com/jhilgeman/CSV/blob/master/CSV.cs</a> 
 
Step 4: Use the event &quot;onRecordRead&quot; from the above library to create an event handler that maps the CSV data to a new instance of Customer: 

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-43005513-3"> var csvReader = new MyUtilities.CSV(&quot;C:\\datafile.csv&quot;);
 csvReader.onRecordRead += CsvReader_onRecordRead;
 csvReader.ReadAllRecords();
...
 private void CsvReader_onRecordRead(object sender, MyUtilities.CSV csv, List&lt;string&gt; record, int validationResult)
 {
 // Create a new instance of a Customer model and map our CSV data to it
 var customer = new Customer()
 {
 Name = record[0],
 Age = record[1],
 Country = record[2]
 };

 // Add it to our List container
 customers.Add(customer);
 }
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Step 5: After the CSV file is parsed and transformed into the List of Customer objects, then just use XML serialization to save the list into an XML file. This is a pretty good tutorial to follow: 
<a href="https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/483055/XML-Serialization-and-Deserialization-Part" rel="ugc">https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/483055/XML-Serialization-and-Deserialization-Part</a> 
 
That's it. 
 
if you want to see the all the main code (except for Step 5), here's a sample: 

<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-43005513-4"> public partial class MainWindow : Window
 {
 // Container for all our Customers
 public List&lt;Customer&gt; customers = new List&lt;Customer&gt;();

 public MainWindow()
 {
 InitializeComponent();

 // Initialize CSV reader and run it
 var csvReader = new MyUtilities.CSV(&quot;C:\\datafile.csv&quot;);
 csvReader.onRecordRead += CsvReader_onRecordRead;
 csvReader.ReadAllRecords();

 // Step 5 would go here
 }

 private void CsvReader_onRecordRead(object sender, MyUtilities.CSV csv, List&lt;string&gt; record, int validationResult)
 {
 // Create a new instance of a Customer model and map our CSV data to it
 var customer = new Customer()
 {
 Name = record[0],
 Age = record[1],
 Country = record[2]
 };

 // Add it to our List container
 customers.Add(customer);
 }

 // Model representing each individual customer
 public class Customer
 {
 public string Name { get; set; }
 public string Age { get; set; }
 public string Country { get; set; }
 }
 }
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IT Contracting 

Isaac Johnson

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Thanks Fernando, 
 
This is exactly what I needed. 
 
Isaac
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Thanks so much. &nbsp;This is what I needed.
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Not a problem TechIsaac, glad to help.
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I have to code a c# solution to convert a txt file to xml using vs 2017. 
 
What is the best way to do this task
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I have to code a c# solution to convert a txt file to xml using vs 2017.

What is the best way to do this task

Converting a txt file to xml

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).