XML to CSV Using XSLT
csv, xml, xslt
Solution
Found an XML transform stylesheet here (wayback machine link, site itself is in german)
The stylesheet added here could be helpful:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:template match="/*/child::*">
<xsl:for-each select="child::*">
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">"<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>", </xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="position() = last()">"<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>"<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Perhaps you want to remove the quotes inside the xsl:if tags so it doesn't put your values into quotes, depending on where you want to use the CSV file.
Problem
I have the following XML document: ``` <projects> <project> <name>Shockwave</name> <language>Ruby</language> <owner>Brian May</owner> <state>New</state> <startDate>31/10/2008 0:00:00</startDate> </project> <project> <name>Other</name> <language>Erlang</language> <owner>Takashi Miike</owner> <state> Canceled </state> <startDate>07/11/2008 0:00:00</startDate> </project> ... ``` And I'd like to get this from the transformation (XSLT) result: ``` Shockwave,Ruby,Brian May,New,31/10/2008 0:00:00 Other,Erlang,Takashi Miike,Cancelled,07/11/2008 0:00:00 ``` Does anyone know the XSLT to achieve this? I'm using .net in case that matters.