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Andrei Ion
Andrei Ion

Reputation: 1827

Save as XML with VBA?

Is there any way to save an Excel table as XML? I have the XML Schema file... and some data in a table... and I have in Excel the Save as XML file option but can I save a file as XML from VBA? I want to automate a process and I didn;t find nothing on this option. Thanks!

Upvotes: 11

Views: 28407

Answers (2)

Solata
Solata

Reputation: 1482

This link helped me the most -> http://curiousmind.jlion.com/exceltotextfile

Script on link:

Sub MakeXML(iCaptionRow As Integer, iDataStartRow As Integer, sOutputFileName As String)
    Dim Q As String
    Q = Chr$(34)

    Dim sXML As String

    sXML = "<?xml version=" & Q & "1.0" & Q & " encoding=" & Q & "UTF-8" & Q & "?>"
    sXML = sXML & "<rows>"


    ''--determine count of columns
    Dim iColCount As Integer
    iColCount = 1
    While Trim$(Cells(iCaptionRow, iColCount)) > ""
        iColCount = iColCount + 1
    Wend

    Dim iRow As Integer
    iRow = iDataStartRow

    While Cells(iRow, 1) > ""
        sXML = sXML & "<row id=" & Q & iRow & Q & ">"

        For icol = 1 To iColCount - 1
           sXML = sXML & "<" & Trim$(Cells(iCaptionRow, icol)) & ">"
           sXML = sXML & Trim$(Cells(iRow, icol))
           sXML = sXML & "</" & Trim$(Cells(iCaptionRow, icol)) & ">"
        Next

        sXML = sXML & "</row>"
        iRow = iRow + 1
    Wend
    sXML = sXML & "</rows>"

    Dim nDestFile As Integer, sText As String

    ''Close any open text files
    Close

    ''Get the number of the next free text file
    nDestFile = FreeFile

    ''Write the entire file to sText
    Open sOutputFileName For Output As #nDestFile
    Print #nDestFile, sXML
    Close
End Sub

Sub test()
    MakeXML 1, 2, "C:\Users\jlynds\output2.xml"
End Sub

Upvotes: 0

Andrei Ion
Andrei Ion

Reputation: 1827

the good ol' macro recorder saved me this time :)) (Why didn't I used it before I posted here?) So... To load an xml schema you have:

ActiveWorkbook.XmlMaps.Add("Book2.xml", "raport").Name _
        = "raport_Map"

And to save it as xml:

ActiveWorkbook.SaveAsXMLData Filename:="Book3.xml", _
        Map:=ActiveWorkbook.XmlMaps("raport_Map")

Who would have thought that it's that easy?

Upvotes: 7

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