Extracts MeSH descriptors and associated data from a given XML file into a SQL file which can be inserted into a MySQL database.

Go to https://github.com/ilios/mesh-parser/releases and download the latest JAR file.

If you want to build the mesh parser yourself then: Run mvn package in the project's root directory. This will generate an executable jar file mesh_parser-1.1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar in the target sub-directory.

Run the jar file whilst providing a path to the MeSH descriptor file and the destination for the output SQL

$ java -jar mesh_parser-1.1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar <mesh-descriptor-file> <sql-output-file>

This will parse the given MeSH descriptor file and create the SQL file.

If you wish to test the SQL file an example database can be found in resources/db/schema/mesh_tables.sql

Input parameters:

• mesh-descriptor-file ... location of the MeSH descriptor XML file
• sql-output-file ... location where the new SQL file should be written

• The DTD file corresponding to the MeSH descriptor file must be located in the same directory as the descriptor file.
• The sql-output-file should not exist before running the script, it will be created.