XML processing to CSV
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This script was published by Tommy at the OpenOffice Basic, Python, BeanShell, JavaScript.
This script allows to convert from XML to CSV.
Original code
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os, sys, zipfile, xml.dom.minidom ########################################################## # Script to export LibreOffice Auto Correct Entries # into a flat file (e.g. to reuse some of them with autokey) ########################################################## ACEfile=r'C:\Program Files\OpenOffice\User\LibreOffice 3\user\autocorr\acor_it-IT.dat' # This is a ZIP where LibreOffice stores its auto correct entries '''ACEfile=r'C:\Program Files\OpenOffice\User\LibreOffice 3\user\autocorr\acor_it-IT.dat' #for windows ''' ifname='DocumentList.xml' # Name of the file inside the ZIP archive that contains auto correct entries ofname='AutoCorrectEntries.csv' # any desired output file name for the export tagname= 'block-list:block' # (as in DocumentList.xml) schema=['block-list:abbreviated-name','block-list:name'] # (as in DocumentList.xml) default_encoding='UTF-8' # (as in DocumentList.xml) ofdelimiter=";" # any desired delimiter for export ########################################################## of = open(ofname,"w") oACE = zipfile.ZipFile(ACEfile) zif = oACE.open(ifname, "r") # access as read-only ZipExtFile object doctree = xml.dom.minidom.parse(zif) # Parse the input file as DOM (document object model, xml-tree) into memory if doctree.encoding: encoding = doctree.encoding else: encoding = default_encoding for elem in doctree.getElementsByTagName(tagname): acEntry=[] for fieldname in schema: acEntry.append(elem.getAttribute(fieldname)) of.write(ofdelimiter.join(acEntry).encode(encoding)+"\n") of.close() # Close output file doctree.unlink # and deallocate DOM object