How to preserve the date time format while converting .xls data to xml file

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I have some data in my excel sheet and the date format is yyyy/mm/dd. When i Convert it to XML type then the data is not preserved in the specified format. Instead it is taking some junk text values. How do i proceeed?

Posted 14-Jan-15 17:28pm

Anshumaan C

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PIEBALDconsult 14-Jan-15 23:30pm

I don't know, but the W3C recommends YYYY-MM-DD for dates in XML.

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santosh.yadav198613 · Answer 1 · 2015-01-14T17:54:00

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Why you need to convert it to XML, use json instead.
You can newtonsoft.json library to convert, it is available in nuget package manager.

And if you want to XML, save in XML in desired format after converting.

Regards,
Santosh

Posted 14-Jan-15 17:54pm

santosh.yadav198613

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Anshumaan C 15-Jan-15 0:16am

I guess i didn't make myself clear. We are trying to export it to a file. When you go to Excel's Developer mode, you get the facility to map the data in excel to xml format. As to why we I need it. It's a necessary evil.I would need to get a solution in this manner,