Xml And Excel Tutorial

Excel has powerful features that allow us to analyse numeric data and create visual reports such as charts.

Xml and excel tutorial. Download the free project files. First turn on the developer tab. This enables you to exchange data between different applications. If the developer tab is not available in the ribbon you need to add the developer tab with the mentioned steps or procedure.

You will get the options dialogue window as above example. After you map the xml elements to your worksheet you can import and export xml data into and out of the mapped cells. When creating an excel file with open xml sdk theres no need to install microsoft office so this library can be used without excel installation. With the xml schema loaded into excel we can begin the process of assigning xml tags to the data in our spreadsheet.

All you need to do is drag the xml element to the corresponding column in your spreadsheet. Below you can see me dragging the make element to the make column. You can convert your excel file to an xml data file or vice versa. The purpose of this tutorial is to export an excel table to a simple xml file.

You will find a mapped file and an unmapped file both inxml format and inxlsx format. To practice exporting excel to xml you can download our sample files from the button above. Xml are the files used in the databases which are shared over the web excel has made it very easier for us to import the data in xml to excel in the form of tables or database xml is basically an external data and it can be imported to excel from the data tab under the get external data tab from data from other sources section. However the demo project starts the xlsx document after it hsa been created so in order to view the file created a program that can open xlsx files should be installed to view the file.

You can import the xml file in excel from the source option in the developer tab. Then click on from xml data import now select the xml file. You will get the following data.