convert xml to csv in ruby and write it to a text file

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Hello guys ! I'm new in Ruby....Hope you can help because i'm trying a lot and just can't see where is the problem.. I have this xml, and not only this, i want just for any xml file that i might put : <?xml version="1.0"?> <records> <company> <id>p1</id> <name>Skoda</name> <price>10000</price> <stock>4</stock> <country>Czech Republic</country> </company> <company> <id>p2</id> <name>Mercedes</name> <price>50000</price> <stock>5</stock> <country>Germany</country> </company> <company> <id>p3</id> <name>Alfa Romeo</name> <price>18000</price> <stock>19</stock> <country>Italy</country> </company> <company> <id>p4</id> <name>Fiat</name> <price>1500</price> <stock>15000</stock> <country>Italy</country> </company> </records> AND USING THE CODE BELOW: require 'nokogiri' require 'pp' xmldoc = Nokogiri::XML(IO.read("xmlinputfile.xml")) columns = xmldoc.xpath('/*/*[position()=1]/*').ma...

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