In this case, you should either contact its creator, or try to find some documentation that describes it online. Of course, sometimes you may have to work with an XML file that was created by somebody else.
That's necessary because no code snippet in the world will be able to detect the meaning of your data and its location inside the XML file, unless you provide a clear description of it. All you need to do to work with this type of files is to know the structure of the XML document.
The problem I have with that is I would need to specify specific elements in to code by name, but I want it to be able to parse it without doing that.Īre there any tools or libraries in java that would be able to help me achieve this.As you can see, XML is very popular, especially because it's so easy to use. I was thinking of using a DOM parser to read the xml file. I need help understanding the steps involved in converting an XML file into a CSV file using java.Īnd here is the resulting CSV file. I won't provide any link here to comply with Peter Foti 's judicious remark - but if you key "XML2CSV-Generic-Converter" in your favorite search engine you should find it easily. There might be other ones of course, and better ones certainly, but I couldn't pick any decent (free) one by myself. So the answer to the last part of your question is: yes, there is at least one library which will help you achieve your goal, mine, which is named "XML2CSV-Generic-Converter". Public static void main(String args) throws Exception ). Here's a working example, data.xml has your data: import java.io.File
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