Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Module Logic

So, having gotten that little bit of business out of the way, let's get to the heart of the matter. Here's the pseudocode for the main routine. I have chosen to create a CSVRowWriter class to handle walking through the Column Elements of a single Row Element and to write them to the output stream.

Logic for the Main Routine

Parse input arguments from command line IF help option is specified display help message and exit ENDIF Set up DOM XML environment (dependent on implementation) Load input XML Document (dependent on implementation) Open output file Initialize CSVRowWriter object NodeList of Rows <- Call Document's getElementsByTagName for all Elements named Row DO until Rows NodeList.item[index] is null Call CSVRowWriter write ...