Help to rebuild a badly formed Index.xml file

Question

From time to time, I receive Numbers documents whose Index.xml file may be read by several programs but which can't be deciphered by Numbers itself.
My guess is that for some reason, Numbers built a wrong instruction.
Of course, it's annoying because many users don't backup their documents or use a wrong protocol to backup.
Never replace an old backup by a new one before checking that the new one is usable is the rule to apply.
Given that, I built an AppleScript which may help us to rebuild from scratch such a clobbered document.
Running it upon such a file creates a folder in the Documents folder.
In this new folder we will find several text files describing every sheet embedded in the document.
In each of these file, it inserts tags marking delimiting the descriptors of every table.
It also insert pairs of return characters between every cell descriptor.
Last not least, it completes the codes describing references to other tables or to other sheet or to other table of other sheet by their "standard" description, the one which is used in the true formulas.
Useful information, as often in AppleLand, consecutive objects are numbered starting from zero when we are accustomed to number them starting from 1.
sf:col="0" means column number(0+1) which is column A
sf:row="0" means row number (0+1)
Given all these informations, rebuilding a document is quite easy (but it requires a lot of time and is boring for eyes).
As the script is long and as I am afraid of the oddities which may be introduced by the forum's message parser, the script is not available here but on my iDisk.
<http://idisk.me.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
Download:
ForiWork:For_Numbers:découpe_Index_deNumbers.zip
I apologize but given a bug of MacOS X 10.5.x, using the script under this operating system is less comfortable than it is under 10.4.x.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 26 août 2008 16:16:46)

Answer 1

HI Balaji,
Below is the sample xml file which i have saved as test.xml and placed it @ D: drive
Test.xml:
<employee>
<emp>
<eno>1</eno>
<ename>Test1</ename>
</emp>
<emp>
<eno>2</eno>
<ename>Test2</ename>
</emp>
<emp>
<eno>2</eno>
<ename>Test2</ename>
</emp>
</employee>
Goto Topology >Expand Technologues>right click on XML and select new data source
in Defination Tab, provide the physical architecture name
in JDBC Tab, provide the below details
JDBC Driver: com.sunopsis.jdbc.driver.xml.SnpsXmlDriver
JDBC URL: jdbc:snps:xml?f=d:\test.xml&d=test.dtd&re=employee&s=TEST&ro=false
Save it
Click on Test Connection and again click on test, it should show test connection as "Successfully Test"
Hope this may helps you
Regards,
Phanikanth