I don't know what format it is, but if it's standard you could probably find utilities to convert it to xml, or another format that you could then convert into xml.

You might look at File::MMagic, or the unix 'file' command- I believe you can set them to peek into the file (if they don't already do it by default) to identify what type of file it is by looking for certain clues.

It'd be nice to know what beastie you're dealing with before you go and roll your own xx-to-xml solution, huh?

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