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Old 05-25-2011
script to read XML file

Dear All,

I have one log file and it contains lot of XML as below.


<methodCall><methodName>RefillTRequest</methodName><params><param><value><struct><member><name>originNodeType</name><value><string>EXT</string></value></member><member><name>originHostName</name><value><string>ABC_SRV01</string></value></member><member><name>originTransactionID</name><value><string>12345678998765432100</string></value></member><member><name>originTimeStamp</name><value><dateTime.iso8601>20110517T00:00:19+0400</dateTime.iso8601></value></member><member><name>subscriberNumber</name><value><string>123456789123</string></value></member><member><name>transactionAmountRefill</name><value><string>3150</string></value></member><member><name>transactionCurrency</name><value><string>DHS</string></value></member><member><name>paymentProfileID</name><value><string>ABC</string></value></member><member><name>externalData1</name><value><string>Service</string></value></member></struct></value></param></params></methodCall>
<methodCall><methodName>RefillTRequest</methodName><params><param><value><struct><member><name>originNodeType</name><value><string>EXT</string></value></member><member><name>originHostName</name><value><string>ABC_SRV01</string></value></member><member><name>originTransactionID</name><value><string>11223344556677889911</string></value></member><member><name>originTimeStamp</name><value><dateTime.iso8601>20110517T00:00:48+0400</dateTime.iso8601></value></member><member><name>subscriberNumber</name><value><string>987654321987</string></value></member><member><name>transactionAmountRefill</name><value><string>5250</string></value></member><member><name>transactionCurrency</name><value><string>DHS</string></value></member><member><name>paymentProfileID</name><value><string>ABC</string></value></member><member><name>externalData1</name><value><string>Service</string></value></member></struct></value></param></params></methodCall>

I want to generates CSV from above XML. CSV is as below.

MSISDN,Transaction ID ,Amount,Profile ID
123456789123,12345678998765432100,3150,ABC
987654321987,11223344556677889911,5250,ABC
# 2  
Old 05-25-2011
In simple way, without much intelligence,

Code:
$ awk -F "<string>|</string>" '{OFS=",";print $6,$8,$10,$14}' file
12345678998765432100,123456789123,3150,ABC
11223344556677889911,987654321987,5250,ABC

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