Parsing XML using unix terminal

Peter's answer is correct, but it outputs a trailing line feed.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="text"/>
  <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:for-each select="myel">
      <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
      <xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
      <xsl:if test="not(position() = last())">
        <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Just run e.g.

xsltproc stylesheet.xsl source.xml

to generate the CSV results into standard output.

Use a command-line XSLT processor such as xsltproc, saxon or xalan to parse the XML and generate CSV. Here's an example, which for your case is the stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>

    <xsl:template match="root">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="myel"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="myel">
        <xsl:for-each select="@*">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
        <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template> 
</xsl:stylesheet>