XML to CSV Using XSLT
Here is a version with configurable parameters that you can set programmatically:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8" /> <xsl:param name="delim" select="','" /> <xsl:param name="quote" select="'"'" /> <xsl:param name="break" select="'
'" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="projects/project" /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="project"> <xsl:apply-templates /> <xsl:if test="following-sibling::*"> <xsl:value-of select="$break" /> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*"> <!-- remove normalize-space() if you want keep white-space at it is --> <xsl:value-of select="concat($quote, normalize-space(), $quote)" /> <xsl:if test="following-sibling::*"> <xsl:value-of select="$delim" /> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="text()" /></xsl:stylesheet>
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.
This xsl:stylesheet can use a specified list of column headers and will ensure that the rows will be ordered correctly. It requires XSLT version 2.0.
<?xml version="1.0"?><xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:csv="csv:csv"> <xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:variable name="delimiter" select="','"/> <csv:columns> <column>name</column> <column>sublease</column> <column>addressBookID</column> <column>boundAmount</column> <column>rentalAmount</column> <column>rentalPeriod</column> <column>rentalBillingCycle</column> <column>tenureIncome</column> <column>tenureBalance</column> <column>totalIncome</column> <column>balance</column> <column>available</column> </csv:columns> <xsl:template match="/property-manager/properties"> <!-- Output the CSV header --> <xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/csv:columns/*"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <xsl:if test="position() != last()"> <xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> <!-- Output rows for each matched property --> <xsl:apply-templates select="property"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="property"> <xsl:variable name="property" select="."/> <!-- Loop through the columns in order --> <xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/csv:columns/*"> <!-- Extract the column name and value --> <xsl:variable name="column" select="."/> <xsl:variable name="value" select="$property/*[name() = $column]"/> <!-- Quote the value if required --> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="contains($value, '"')"> <xsl:variable name="x" select="replace($value, '"', '""')"/> <xsl:value-of select="concat('"', $x, '"')"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="contains($value, $delimiter)"> <xsl:value-of select="concat('"', $value, '"')"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="$value"/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> <!-- Add the delimiter unless we are the last expression --> <xsl:if test="position() != last()"> <xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> <!-- Add a newline at the end of the record --> <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> </xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>