Good Afternoon,

I'm a developer working for some digital company. My use case is not too 
general, and is simpler than OFBiz. It is for a small business. I have 
maintained a few Excel spreadsheet for a few years for some business asset. The 
spreadsheet are not formal modeled, and from time to time we maintain and query 
those sheets. The data present characteristics of hierarchy structure and 
different attribute sets for different kind types.  Maintaining those data in 
database may require formal data modeling and I am not clear how it works.

I came across an old publication about Universal E-Catalog, and I learned about 
OFBiz project. I want to learn Key-Value pair modeling pattern. I downloaded 
the OFBiz ERD diagrams. I studied the ERD diagrams for a couple days, and what 
I'm interested is Product, ProductType, Content, ContentType, Entities that use 
Universal E-Catalog pattern. You can correct me if that is not the case. This 
modeling pattern needs to have seed data to understand, and I found the best 
way to view the seed data is using Excel spreadsheet. I found the project on 
Github containing Seed data, however, all Seed data are XML format. Is there 
any possibilities to extract some XML seed data to convert to CSV format? From 
the ERD diagram, I think I need Product, ProductType, ProductTypeAttr, Content, 
ContentType, ContentAttr seed data.

Thank you!

Xinhuan Zheng

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