Hi monks

Im now doing XML conversion job from a plain text file which has been pre-edited for conversion convenience.

Im having the text file in which there are four types of lists are there.

they are numberedlist which is pre-edited with <nl>, unnumberedlist with <un>, titled numberedlist <tl> and unnumbered title list <utl>.

A part of my input file is like this:

<nl>
slkjslkjslkjslks
slkjslkjslkjslkjs
slkslkjslkjsl
<utl>lksjlkjslkjs
lskjslkjslkjs
slkjslkjslkjslkj
</utl>
<un>lkslskjlkjs
<nl>lksjlksj
lkjlkjl
</nl>
</un>
</nl>
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This is just a single instance of the nesting in the file. there are so many occurences are there in such a way that any list tag may consist of any number of list tags inside in any order in it, even itself inside. The above input has to be converted as :

<list type="numbered">
<listitem>slkjslkjslkjslks</listitem>
<listitem>slkjslkjslkjslkjs</listitem>
<listitem>slkslkjslkjsl</listitem>
<listitem><list type="unnumeredtitle"><listitem>lksjlkjslkjs</listitem
+>
<listitem>lskjslkjslkjs</listitem>
<listitem>slkjslkjslkjslkj</listitem>
</list></listitem><listitem><list type="unnumbered"><listitem>lkslskjl
+kjs</listitem>
<listitem><list type="numbered"><listitem>lksjlksj</listitem>
<listitem>lkjlkjl</listitem>
</list></listitem>
</list></listitem>
</list>
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How should i start convert this text file into valid XML file

My english is not that good.

Please Give ur suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

--Murugesan--

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