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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: XML to CSV converter
Date: 21 May 2014 15:35:45 GMT
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On 2014-05-21, Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 20 May 2014 18:01:16 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>  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.
>
> I have that kind of XML which can be opened directly by Excel.
>
> I guess that removing all overhead would return a proper .csv - but I'm
> afraid that some data would be incomplete, thus giving random truncation
> of rows.

If it's an Office XML document, and you want to open it in Office 2008,
you need the Open XML File Format Converter:

<http://www.macworld.com/article/1134138/officeupdates.html>

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