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Re: Converting xls or plain text file to xml

From: "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 7/3/2008 6:09:00 PM

"Joseph J. Kesselman" <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote in message 
news:486ce4d8$1@kcnews01...
> sweetpotatop@y... wrote:
>> I am wondering if there is way to convert a xls (with column headers)
>> or a plain text file to an xml file without knowing anything about
>> xsd.
>
> Sure. Schema validation is optional. For basic data processing, you can 
> often ignore schemas and just work with well-formed documents.
>
> If you know how to read the source data, and you know how you want to map 
> that to XML, this is just a Simple Matter Of Programming.
>
> Excel is using the schema because it's trying to be general purpose and 
> let the schema help guide that mapping. But hand-coding certainly works.
Also you can save from Excel as XML (versions 2003+) without a custom 
schema, you'll get Excel's own schema instead which can be hard work to use 
but this depends on your specific scenario.

-- 

Joe Fawcett
http://joe.fawcett.name


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