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Procedure Excel 2 X ML

This document provides 11 steps to import an XML file into Microsoft Excel to create a workbook that can be used to modify and export the XML. The steps include opening Excel, enabling the Developer tab, importing the XML file, renaming worksheets for each second level element, removing the root element, dragging elements to create tables on each worksheet, refreshing the data, and exporting the modified XML file.

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Procedure Excel 2 X ML

This document provides 11 steps to import an XML file into Microsoft Excel to create a workbook that can be used to modify and export the XML. The steps include opening Excel, enabling the Developer tab, importing the XML file, renaming worksheets for each second level element, removing the root element, dragging elements to create tables on each worksheet, refreshing the data, and exporting the modified XML file.

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Step1:

Open Microsoft excel

Step2:

Go to Options

Step3: Under ‘Customize Ribbon’ check the ‘Developer’ checkbox.


Step4: After this, a Developer tab shall be visible as follows.

Step5: From XMl section, click on import and then browse for the sample xml file, the format of which
shall be referred for further work. Make sure the file should have at least two occurrences of those
blobs which are supposed to be recurring such as “Node” blob shall be recurring however “GenConfig”
will be defined once.s
Click Ok in subsequent pop-ups.
Step6: After the import the file will look like as follows. Click on Source button to view the map.

Step7: Rename (add) worksheets for each second level element such as GenConfig, Node.
Step8: Right Click on the root element which is ‘config’ and then click on “Remove Element” .

Step9: Now switch to each worksheet one by one, and then click on respective element (from second
level), drag and drop to first cell of that sheet. E.g. for GenConfig, it will look as follows
For Node, after drag and drop a table shall be created as it is of recurssive type element along with a
header which is just for information.

Step10: Click on refresh data to reloading the data from imported xml and check if everything is fine.
Step11: Now workbook is ready to do any modifications, simply ammend the table such as dragging the
table or adding any row to it. And then click on export to save it as an xml.

Sample xml that has been tweaked and the excel workbook created by this procedure are attached
herewith.

SampleWorkBookFor GenericFilesCollector
Procedure.xlsx Config.xml

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