This program parses XML data relating to the financial holdings of mutual funds. Morningstar provides this data in a series of .7z compressed folders. Each compressed folder has around 10 XML files in it. This Python script runs a batch job on these compressed folders by extracting the .xml files from them and parsing the format to CSV. If there are 10 XML files in a .7z or .zip folder, a single CSV will contain the parsed information for each one of those files.
Because of the hierarchical structure of the XML data, there is quite a bit of repeated information throughout several rows in order for the data to "flatten" into a CSV format. This is the trade off that needs to be made when parsing complicated XML structures to a more manageable CSV format.
- Needs Python 3.3 or greater
setup.pyhas been included to use cx_Freeze to package this program into a Windows executable for distrubution- Run with
python xml_to_csv.py - No command line arguments are supported at this time