Ladies and Gents, I need some guidance and a sample snippet if
possible.
Basically I want to convert an xml file to a fixed length text file.
The following is a sample of what I am trying to do.
Note the data for each element/attribute must be in the exact start
position stated below. For example, if there is a scenario where
child2
does not show on the input xml file, then if child3 is present, it
must
still start in position 39.

Position of data for output file:
field: child1 start 1 length 7
field: att1 start 12 length 5
field: child2 start 27 length 12
field: child3 start 39 length 15
field: att2 start 56 length 3

Input:
<parent att1="foo">
<child1>aChild</child1>
<child2>anotherChild</child2>
<child3 att2="bar">yetAnotherChild</child3>
</parent>

Output:
aChild foo anotherChildyetAnotherChild bar

I would really appreciate any help on this.

Thanks
Garvin Franco
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