Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - Excel 2003 and save as XML Spreadsheet http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Tech Off - Excel 2003 and save as XML Spreadsheet http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Thu, 23 May 2013 23:32:59 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 23:32:59 GMT Rev9 4 -4 -1 Tech Off - Excel 2003 and save as XML Spreadsheet We have excel 2003 and are trying to save out a "xml spreadsheet".  The mess of a file is created (sorry but why is it so diffiuclt for MS to save out clean proper tags like everyone else) but i notice rows which are completely blank or contain blank fields will have the particular XML tag completely removed.  The problem with this is Im expecting 7 columns when sometimes the column can be 5 or 3 or 7.  Is there any way to force excel to NOT remove blank fields from the XML file this way everyone contains the 7 tags to correspond with the 7 column fields in the excel file.

Thanks

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/260365-Excel-2003-and-save-as-XML-Spreadsheet/260365#260365 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:40:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/260365-Excel-2003-and-save-as-XML-Spreadsheet/260365#260365 quantass0 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/quantass0/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Excel 2003 and save as XML Spreadsheet
quantass0 wrote:
We have excel 2003 and are trying to save out a "xml spreadsheet".  The mess of a file is created (sorry but why is it so diffiuclt for MS to save out clean proper tags like everyone else) but i notice rows which are completely blank or contain blank fields will have the particular XML tag completely removed.  The problem with this is Im expecting 7 columns when sometimes the column can be 5 or 3 or 7.  Is there any way to force excel to NOT remove blank fields from the XML file this way everyone contains the 7 tags to correspond with the 7 column fields in the excel file.

Thanks


Not that I am aware of.

I would go off some heading naming semantic. This way you can see if the mapping you need for what you need in order to do some data exporting.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/260365-Excel-2003-and-save-as-XML-Spreadsheet/c24ac92678414675b1cc9dfa00bcb66d#c24ac92678414675b1cc9dfa00bcb66d Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:30:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/260365-Excel-2003-and-save-as-XML-Spreadsheet/c24ac92678414675b1cc9dfa00bcb66d#c24ac92678414675b1cc9dfa00bcb66d odujosh 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/odujosh/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Excel 2003 and save as XML Spreadsheet A different direction, but you could create a small application to read out the excel file and generate the xml file in your own format. Not that hard to do with ado.net. 

But I don't know your requirements, this would make no sence if the end user needs to use this application a few times a day, etc.

ADO.NET read excel
http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/archive/2006/05/26/2973.aspx

Fill it to a datatable and use DataTable.WriteXml, maby that already gives an acceptable result.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/260365-Excel-2003-and-save-as-XML-Spreadsheet/9bf6b2e6aa6b4d2691ee9dfa00bcb6f2#9bf6b2e6aa6b4d2691ee9dfa00bcb6f2 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:32:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/260365-Excel-2003-and-save-as-XML-Spreadsheet/9bf6b2e6aa6b4d2691ee9dfa00bcb6f2#9bf6b2e6aa6b4d2691ee9dfa00bcb6f2 erik 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/erik_/Discussions/RSS Tech Off - Excel 2003 and save as XML Spreadsheet I suspect the reason that you are not seeing blank rows and columns in the XML is that it would be inefficient to store those in memory.  Read more about it in Wikipedia's sparse array entry.

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