XML processing to CSV
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Revision as of 00:12, 4 September 2013 by Marcoagpinto (talk | contribs) ([Python/Calc]: XML processing to CSV)
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