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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: XML to CSV converter
Date: 20 May 2014 18:01:16 GMT
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On 2014-05-20, Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there any xml to csv (or xml to anything) converter which you could
> recommend?
>
> When I google around for "xml2csv mac" I find tons of them - which then
> appear to be .exe
>
> Excel from Microsoft Office 2007 is supposed to open .xml properly.
> But that's the Win version. Office 2008 for Mac is not able to do so.
>
> FileMaker offers the capability to write .xml - but its capabilities to
> read .xml are more than limited.
>
> LibreOffice does refuse to read .xml, as long as there is no proper .xsl
> info first. I guess the same is true for OpenOffice.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin

There are many, many flavors of XML. You'll need to figure out what type
of XML markup it is and then use an XSL transform to convert it to CSV.

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