NAME

pdbtoxml - Generate an XML description form a Palm PDB

SYNOPSIS

pdbtoxml --format=int,data,time,text --source=./input.pdb --output=./out.xml

cat input.pdb | pdbtoxml --format=int,data,time,text --output=./out.xml

cat input.pdb | pdbtoxml --format=int,data,time,text > out.xml

OPTIONS

--source

A PDB file, an alternative is to use standard input.

--output

The file to write XML description to. An alternative is to use standard output.

--format

The layout of a PDB record which is a list of datatypes seperated by commas. This option is mandatory.

--help

What you are reading now.

DESCRIPTION

This tool generates an XML description starting form a Palm PDB. The datatypes supported are especially targetted to NSBasic (http://www.nsbasic.com), but can be used with any other PalmOS dev. language. The only drawback is that every record in the database needs to have the same layout.

AUTHOR

Johan Van den Brande <johan@vandenbrande.com>

LICENSE

This is free software, distributed underthe same terms as Perl itself.