Is there an easy way to convert data to xml in PHP?

[prvnk]

1. MY application gets input data from files in the following fomats

- xml format 1

- xml format 2

- csv

These should get converted to my defined xml format

 

2. An example scenario

- Incoming data has an element custId. My application has a matching element customerid.

 

Is the following solution right or is there a better way?

- create xsd of my final format (is there any available feature or code for this in PHP?)

- create xsd at runtime from the incoming format (is there any available feature or code for this in PHP?)

- write code to create a php screen to display elements of the xsd on the left and right (is there any available feature or code for this in PHP?)

- give an option to map left fields with right

- when clicked on a convert button, convert the incoming xml file to the matched format and create a new file as output

 

I can do the complete steps from scratch by writing a lot of code and parsing each element of both the files. But are there any time saving or smart suggestions to do it better?

 

[bighippo]

try pear serialize..