scn2xml

Quick Start

• Command: scn2xml < input.scn > output.xml
• Local executable: /home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/scn2xml
• Full reference: See references/help.md for complete documentation

When To Use This Tool

• Convert SCN-format content into XML so it can be processed with XML-side tools.
• Bridge SCN-oriented intermediate files into the rest of an EDirect XML pipeline.
• Normalize SCN payloads before extraction or archiving.

Common Patterns

# 1) Convert SCN input into XML
scn2xml < input.scn > output.xml

# 2) Convert and inspect the first emitted XML blocks
scn2xml < input.scn | sed -n '1,40p'

Recommended Workflow

1. Confirm the upstream payload is really in the SCN form expected by your workflow.
2. Run scn2xml via stdin redirection or a pipe.
3. Check that non-empty XML is produced on a small sample first.
4. Only then send the XML to downstream xtract or archiving steps.

Guardrails

• This wrapper simply runs transmute -s2x, so transmute must be on PATH.
• The installed wrapper does not expose a meaningful --help / --version response.
• Prefer stdin or pipes over undocumented positional-file behavior.
• If conversion yields no output, re-check the upstream SCN payload on a representative sample before scaling up.