csv2xml

Quick Start

• Command: csv2xml < table.csv > table.xml
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/csv2xml
• Full reference: See references/help.md for detailed usage and options

When To Use This Tool

• Turn comma-separated tables into XML so they can be handled with xtract and other XML-aware tools.
• Move spreadsheet-like metadata into the same XML-oriented processing path used elsewhere in EDirect.
• Normalize tabular annotations before merging them with XML-centric records or reports.

Common Patterns

# 1) Convert a CSV file into XML
csv2xml < table.csv > table.xml

# 2) Convert and inspect the first XML records immediately
csv2xml < table.csv | sed -n '1,40p'

Recommended Workflow

1. Make sure the upstream file really is comma-delimited and structurally consistent.
2. Run csv2xml through stdin redirection or an explicit pipe.
3. Inspect the first emitted records before converting a large batch.
4. Feed the XML into downstream xtract or archive-building steps only after that smoke test passes.

Guardrails

• This wrapper simply calls transmute -c2x, so transmute must be available on PATH.
• The installed wrapper does not provide a real --help / --version surface.
• In this environment, a trivial CSV smoke test produced no output rather than a format-specific error, so validate on representative data first.
• Prefer stdin/pipes over relying on undocumented positional-file behavior.