Question

With the help of the following blog: I created a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. Reading from a .txt file I am able to create a relative XML file and save it in a specific path.

However since I have to loop over 50 or more txt files and generate, for each of them, a relative xml file, I would like to be able to automatically save the xml file with the same input name.

I have seen that with a foreach loop I can set “.txt” as input files, but how can I specify to dynamically take the input file name for the xml output file?

At the moment I use an hardcoded path for the File Connection manager used for set the output xml file path.

Moreover, instead of creating the xml file via VB script, would it be possible to create an XML template and use SSIS to fill specific keywords accordingly?

Something like:

<root>
  <product>
      <name>[Prod_Name]</name>
      <qty>[Prod_Qty]</qty>
  </product>
</root>

Answer 1

Here I post my solution in case it might help someone else.
As said in the comment I used a script transformation to create dynamically the xml tags as wished:

With xmlWriter            
 .Write(FormatElement("rdf:Description rdf:about=""" + Me.Variables.strFileName + """ "))
 .Write(FormatElement("Date") + "" + FormatElement("Date", True))
 .Write(FormatElement("ValidFrom") + "" + FormatElement("ValidFrom", True))
 .Write(FormatElement("ValidTo") + "" + FormatElement("ValidTo", True))

  ....

End With