File adapter input file format

Here the communication scenario is as follows: read a file and send a message via XI to an inbound interface.
A file adapter service has been defined. Message protocol 'file content conversion' has been chosen for the file adapter service. Next the file format has to be defined in communiction channel settings.
Is it possible to define the input record structure in the file to be red itself?
The first line will list all column names. The data records will follow in line two up till end of file.
Regards
Klaus

Now I can add some more information to the facts.
In XI 2.0 the adapter engine was used to connect the integration engine to external systems. The adapter engine converted input file contents to a XML message. The structure of the records in the input file has to be defined. There was one option to read this structure from the first line of the file itself. This option was called 'fromFile'.
Now the current situation in XI 3.0 is that the integration engine reads the input file. Conversion of file contents is still available but the option to read the record structure from the input file doesn't exist anymore.
Does anybody know whether I am right and this functionality isn't available anymore or how to achieve the desired system function in XI 3.0.
Regards
Klaus

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