I think T4 will work just fine for your needs. Check out the section "Design-time T4 text templates" in this MSDN link . It describes reading an XML configuration file to drive the code generation.
You basically put the code that reads the input file into the first part of the . Tt file, and then later reference what you read in as you lay out the classes.
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