Converting fixed-record length file to XML

Hello all
I am trying to convert a fixed length flat file to XML.
I believe the only required information for such a coversion is- the element or field names, their data types, and the fixed length of each field.
I do not want to generate a xsl document by hand. Just looking if there are any open source tools which can help me out here.
Let me know if you guys have done this before.
Thanks
Mahesh :)

It all depends on the fixed length file format and the amount of money you are willing to spend. From what I can tell there's not much in the way of free tools for converting stuff like this. It's just not very sexy.

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