Java lib or app to convert CSV to XML file?

Maybe this might help: JSefa

You can read CSV file with this tool and serialize it to XML.

As the others above, I don't know any one-step way to do that, but if you are ready to use very simple external libraries, I would suggest:

OpenCsv for parsing CSV (small, simple, reliable and easy to use)

Xstream to parse/serialize XML (very very easy to use, and creating fully human readable xml)

Using the same sample data as above, code would look like:

package fr.megiste.test;

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;

public class CsvToXml {     

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String startFile = "./startData.csv";
        String outFile = "./outData.xml";

        try {
            CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(startFile));
            String[] line = null;

            String[] header = reader.readNext();

            List out = new ArrayList();

            while((line = reader.readNext())!=null){
                List<String[]> item = new ArrayList<String[]>();
                    for (int i = 0; i < header.length; i++) {
                    String[] keyVal = new String[2];
                    String string = header[i];
                    String val = line[i];
                    keyVal[0] = string;
                    keyVal[1] = val;
                    item.add(keyVal);
                }
                out.add(item);
            }

            XStream xstream = new XStream();

            xstream.toXML(out, new FileWriter(outFile,false));

        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Producing the following result: (Xstream allows very fine tuning of the result...)

<list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello world</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>1.0</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>3.3</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>4</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>goodbye world</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>1e9</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>-3.3</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>45</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello again</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>-1</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>23.33</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>456</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello world 3</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>1.40</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>34.83</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>4999</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
  <list>
    <string-array>
      <string>string</string>
      <string>hello 2 world</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float1</string>
      <string>9981.05</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>float2</string>
      <string>43.33</string>
    </string-array>
    <string-array>
      <string>integer</string>
      <string>444</string>
    </string-array>
  </list>
</list>