pawel-slowik / sql-xml-to-csv

Convert MySQL / MariaDB XML into CSV

Convert MySQL / MariaDB XML into CSV

This is a XSLT 1.0 transformation that converts MySQL / MariaDB XML output into CSV format.

It can be useful for dumping database contents into CSV files when you can't use the SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE ... syntax.

Usage

With the CLI client:

echo 'SELECT * FROM table' | \
mariadb --batch --xml --host localhost --user user --password=password db | \
xsltproc xml2csv.xslt - > output.csv

With the mysqldump CLI utility:

mysqldump --xml --host localhost --user user --password=password db table | \
xsltproc xml2csv.xslt - > output.csv

Using ; instead of the default , as column separators:

mysqldump --xml --host localhost --user user --password=password db table | \
xsltproc --stringparam column_separator ';' xml2csv.xslt - > output.csv

Parameters

• column_separator - string used to separate columns. This is the equivalent of the TERMINATED BY ... option for SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE .... Default is ,.
• column_enclosed_by - string used to quote column values. This is meant to be the equivalent of the ENCLOSED BY ... option, but its handling may be slightly different. Default is ". Can be empty.

TODO

• parametrize:
  • escaping for column enclosing characters
  • row separators / newlines
  • escaping for row separators / newlines