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The XML could be minimized to this:

<names>
 <name1>
  <childName1/>
  <childName2/>
 </name1>

 <name2>
  <childName1/>
  <childName2/>
 </name2>
</names>
And the CSV to this:

name1  ChildName1
name1  ChildName2
name2  ChildName1
name2  ChildName2
with a JSON serialization like this:

{"names":
 [
  {
  "name1":
   [
    {
    "childName1":""
    },
    {
    "childName2":""
    }
   ]
  },
  {
  "name2":
   [
    {
    "childName1":""
    },
    {
    "childName2":""
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}
In a row-oriented fashion, the XML could be:

<names>
 <name1 name="ChildName1|ChildName2">
 <name2 name="ChildName1|ChildName2">
</names>
And the corresponding CSV:

name1  ChildName1|ChildName2
name2  ChildName1|ChildName2
And the corresponding JSON:

{"names": [{"name1":"ChildName1|ChildName2"},{"name2":"ChildName1|ChildName2"}]}