Am 23.12.2010 21:27, schrieb Nobody:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:54:34 +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
Normally (what is normal, anyway?) such files are auto-generated,
and are something that has a apparent similarity with a database query
result, encapsuled in xml.
Most of the time the structure is same for every "row" thats in there.
So, a very unpythonic but fast, way would be to let awk resemble the
records and write them in csv format to stdout.
awk works well if the input is formatted such that each line is a record;
You shouldn't tell it to awk.
it's not so good otherwise. XML isn't a line-oriented format; in
particular, there are many places where both newlines and spaces are just
whitespace. A number of XML generators will "word wrap" the resulting XML
to make it more human readable, so line-oriented tools aren't a good idea.
I never had the opportunity seeing awk fail on this task :-)
For large datasets I always have huge question marks if one says "xml".
But I don't want to start a flame war.
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