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import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import csv
tree = ET.parse("ResidentData.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
# open a file for writing
Resident_data = open('/tmp/ResidentData.csv', 'w')
# create the csv writer object
csvwriter = csv.writer(Resident_data)
resident_head = []
count = 0
for member in root.findall('Resident'):
resident = []
name = member.get('name_value')
resident.append(name)
csvwriter.writerow(resident)
Resident_data.close()
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XML_________________________________________________________________
<State>
<Resident Id="100">
<Name name_value="Name123">Sample Name</Name>
<PhoneNumber name_value="Phone123">1234567891</PhoneNumber>
<EmailAddress name_value="Email123">sample_name@example.com</EmailAddress>
</Resident>
<Resident Id="101">
<Name name_value="12name1234">Sample Name1</Name>
<PhoneNumber name_value="12Phone1234">1234567891</PhoneNumber>
<EmailAddress name_value="12Email1234">sample_name1@example.com</EmailAddress>
</Resident>
</State>
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Sample Output
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Name123
12name1234
Reference:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html
http://blog.appliedinformaticsinc.com/how-to-parse-and-convert-xml-to-csv-using-python/
