Content conversion without delimiter and key fields

Question

I am pretty new to XI, so it has been very challenging till now... (and someway I want to keep it that way) But this problem has kept me awake a couple of nights, so I will unleash it to the XI experts at SDN!
I have to read a legacy file (customers are ordering stuff) with the following content into XI. I finally found out you can use file content conversion to do the job, but I have only seen scenarios where people can use delimiters or key fields so far. I suppose XI can do this job as good as the others, but the question is how it has to be done! :-s
Do I have to use key fields? Or can I simply state there will be 1 header line, X order lines, 1 EOF line?
Sample content:
100207.310551
0107299700001
0108658400001
0109575600001
1200276500001
0109745600001
9999999999999
Header line containing the customer (100207) and the ticket number (300551) separated by a dot.
In this case 5 order lines containing material (8 digits, ex 01072997) and quantity (5 digits, ex 00001)
Line containing only 9's to indicate the end of the file has been reached.
Thanks in advance!
Sven

Answer 1

Hi Sven,
This FCC might help u..If your structure like ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<ns0:bestin xmlns:ns0="http://test.com">
<recordset>
<header>
<client>100207</client>
<ticket>310551</ticket>
</header>
<item>
<material>01072997</material>
<quantity>00001</quantity>
</item>
<item>
<material>01086584</material>
<quantity>00001</quantity>
</item>
<item>
<material>01095756</material>
<quantity>00001</quantity>
</item>
<item>
<material>12002765</material>
<quantity>00001</quantity>
</item>
<item>
<material>01097456</material>
<quantity>00001</quantity>
</item>
</recordset>
</ns0:bestin>
then
RecordStructure----header,item
otherwise
RecordStructure----client,ticket,item
client.fieldFixedLengths----give length of client
ticket.fieldFixedLengths----
item.fieldFixedLengths----
client.fixedLengthTooShortHandling--Cut
ticket........same
item.....
client.addHeaderLine--0
ticket........same
item.....
recordsetStructureOrder---var
Cheers!
Samarjit
Message was edited by:
        Samarjit Dey