FIle Adapter Receiver - Content Conversion

I have a xml file as below that I am trying to convert to a simple csv file. All I get is a blank csv file at the ouptput. I tried different setting for the file conversion in the reveiver file adapter. No luck yet. I could write to an output XML file with no problem, so my interface is working!
The SAP Help doesn't provide much info on this. Your help is highly appreciated.
Thnaks.
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <ns:PlantMaintenanceMessageType xmlns:ns="http://cs.par/demo/plantmaintenance">
<EquipmentID>10005661</EquipmentID>
<FunctionalLocation>KB</FunctionalLocation>
<Date />
<Time />
</ns:PlantMaintenanceMessageType>

What is your root node ?
For your content conversion you need to specify the Recordset Structure but in your case i dont find an entry for the same.
If your XML had an extra tag like
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <ns:PlantMaintenanceMessageType xmlns:ns="http://cs.par/demo/plantmaintenance">
<b><details></b>
<EquipmentID>10005661</EquipmentID>
<FunctionalLocation>KB</FunctionalLocation>
<Date />
<Time />
<b></details></b></ns:PlantMaintenanceMessageType>
then your record set structure wud be details
and in you content conversion parameters you cud say
details.fieldSeparator -> ,
details.endSeparator 'nl'
I guess you are on sp13 or above hence there even if you content conversion fails a blank file will be created (thats what i have experienced).
Reagrds,
ShaBZ

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