I have the following XML file I am converting to csv, the problem is, the first data section is all string tags which I can skip if I need and the second section is a mix of string and int tags. i am able to get the data out, but there is a weird block of data on top i am unable to remove. The XML file is automatically generated so I cant change it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<methodResponse><params><param><value>
<struct>
<member><name>columns</name><value>
<array><data>
<value><string>id</string></value>
<value><string>scanTime</string></value>
<value><string>host</string></value>
<value><string>vuln</string></value>
<value><string>port</string></value>
<value><string>protocol</string></value>
</data></array>
</value></member>
<member><name>table</name><value>
<array><data>
<value>
<array><data>
<value><int>1</int></value>
<value><int>1414010812</int></value>
<value><string>Host.5</string></value>
<value><string>Vuln.6230</string></value>
<value><int>500</int></value>
<value><string>udp</string></value>
</data></array>
</value>
<value>
</data></array>
</value></member>
</struct></value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>

my XSL 1.0 code below

<xsl:variable name="new-line" select="'
'"/>
<xsl:output method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no"/>
<xsl:template match="value/array/data">
<xsl:for-each select="//array/data">
<xsl:for-each select="value">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(*, $new-line,' ')"/>,
</xsl:for-each><br/>;
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

my desired output

id,scanTime,host,vuln,port,protocol
1,1414010812,Host.5,Vuln.6230,500,udp;
2,1414010978,Host.6,Vuln.1191,22,tcp;
3,1414010978,Host.6,Vuln.30535,22,tcp;
4,1414010978,Host.6,Vuln.78682,22,tcp;
5,1414010978,Host.6,Vuln.78683,22,tcp;

The problem is that it runs through the process and prints everything on one line with huge spaces before it prints my desired output.

I have read the best practices for posting, however this is my first post so feel free leave any solid feedback for posting etiquette. Thank you

Firstly, I'd suggest that unless your question is specifically about the content of a Wrox/Wiley book, you're probably better off posting the question on StackOverflow these days. That's where you are most likely to get an answer.

Your code does

which means that whenever a data element is encountered, you are processing every data element in the whole document.

In addition, you're applying the default template rules to whitespace text nodes in the source, which causes the whitespace to be copied to the output.

You're also attempting to generate newlines by outputting a br element, but that only makes sense when generating HTML: the text output method will ignore empty elements, it won't translate them into newlines.

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Thank you for the reply and good tips