NOTICE (May 2017): I'm no longer able to maintain this project or look at posted issues. If you're interested in maintaining, please let me know.
xmlutils.py is a set of Python utilities for processing xml files serially
for converting them to various formats (SQL, CSV, JSON). The scripts use
ElementTree.iterparse() to iterate through nodes in an XML document, thus not
needing to load the entire DOM into memory. The scripts can be used to churn
through large XML files (albeit taking long :P) without memory hiccups.
Simple table-representing XMLs can be converted to CSV using xmltable2csv. It assumes each entry is encapsulated in some tag, and successfuly tested on some XLSX files.
Blind conversion of XML to CSV and SQL is not recommended. It only works if the structure of the XML document is simple (flat). On the other hand, xml2json supports complex XML documents with multiple nested hierarchies. Lastly, the XML files are not validated at the time of conversion.
- Kailash Nadh, June 2013
- Yigal Lazarev, May 2015
- License: MIT License
- Documentation: http://nadh.in/code/xmlutils.py
- Pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xmlutils
With pip or easy_install
pip install xmlutils or easy_install xmlutils
Or from the source
python setup.py install
Once the package is installed, the three bundled commandline utilities should be available from the terminal.
Convert an XML document to a CSV file.
xml2csv --input "samples/fruits.xml" --output "samples/fruits.csv" --tag "item"
--input Input XML document's filename*
--output Output CSV file's filename*
--tag The tag of the node that represents a single record (Eg: item, record)*
--delimiter Delimiter for seperating items in a row. Default is , (a comma followed by a space)
--ignore A space separated list of element tags in the XML document to ignore
--noheader Exclude CSV fields header (first line). Off by default
--encoding Character encoding of the document. Default is utf-8
--limit Limit the number of records to be processed from the document to a particular number. Default is no limit (-1)
--buffer The number of records to be kept in memory before it is written to the output CSV file. Helps reduce the number of disk writes. Default is 1000
Convert an XML table to a CSV file.
xmltable2csv --input "samples/fruits.xml" --output "samples/fruits.csv" --tag "Data"
--input Input XML table's filename*
--output Output CSV file's filename*
--tag The tag of the node that represents a single record (Eg: Data, record)*
--delimiter Delimiter for seperating items in a row. Default is , (a comma followed by a space)
--header Whether to print the header (first row of records in the XML) in the first line; 1=yes, 0=no. Default is 1.
--encoding Character encoding of the document. Default is utf-8
--limit Limit the number of records to be processed from the document to a particular number. Default is no limit (-1)
--buffer The number of records to be kept in memory before it is written to the output CSV file. Helps reduce the number of disk writes. Default is 1000.
Convert an XML document to an SQL file.
xml2sql --input "samples/fruits.xml" --output "samples/fruits.sql" --tag "item" --table "myfruits"
--tag the record tag. eg: item
--table table name
--ignore list of tags to ignore
--limit maximum number of records to process
--packet maximum size of an insert query in MB (MySQL's max_allowed_packet)
Convert XML to JSON. xml2json supports hierarchies nested to any number of levels.
xml2json --input "samples/fruits.xml" --output "samples/fruits.json"
fromxmlutils.xml2sqlimportxml2sqlconverter=xml2sql("samples/fruits.xml", "samples/fruits.sql", encoding="utf-8")
converter.convert(tag="item", table="table")tag -- the record tag. eg: item
table -- table name
ignore -- list of tags to ignore
limit -- maximum number of records to process
packet -- maximum size of an insert query in MB (MySQL's max_allowed_packet)
Returns:
{ num: number of records converted,
num_insert: number of sql insert statements generated
}
fromxmlutils.xml2csvimportxml2csvconverter=xml2csv("samples/fruits.xml", "samples/fruits.csv", encoding="utf-8")
converter.convert(tag="item")tag -- the record tag. eg: item
delimiter -- csv field delimiter
ignore -- list of tags to ignore
limit -- maximum number of records to process
buffer -- number of records to keep in buffer before writing to disk
Returns:
number of records converted
fromxmlutils.xml2jsonimportxml2jsonconverter=xml2json("samples/fruits.xml", "samples/fruits.json", encoding="utf-8")
converter.convert()
# to get a json stringconverter=xml2json("samples/fruits.xml", encoding="utf-8")
printconverter.get_json()pretty -- pretty print?