Gather steps fails for no records

Hi all , I have an interface where the Spitter/Gather step does not get any records and it fails there .

my step after gather is that I will convert the xml to csv for a file but I don’t want to create a file if there are no records.

1. How can I get gather to be successful if there are no records

2. After how can I stop the file from generating if there are no records