From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-04-11T09:26:43+09:00
Subject: Re: XML to CSV

On Thursday 08 April 2010 01:25:05 pm Stuart Clarke wrote:
> My code thus far is
> 
> require 'rexml/document'

REXML probably isn't the best place to start.

> xml = REXML::Document.new(File.open("H:\\test.xml"))
> csv_file = File.new("H:\\data.csv", "w")
> xml.elements.each("//event") do |e|
>     csv_file.puts e.attributes['id'] << "|" <<
>       e.elements['object class="com.########l"'].text << "|" <<
>       e.elements['void property="###########"/long'].text << "|" <<
>       e.elements['void property="description"/string'].text << "|" <<
>       e.elements['void property="downloaded"/long'].text
> end
> 
> 
> This is however failing.

That's like saying "My computer broke" -- it tells us absolutely nothing.

How is it failing? What happens when you try to do that? Does it raise an 
exception? Does it create a CSV file that doesn't work? Does it empty your 
bank accounts and go to Vegas?