Convert excel sheet to XML

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Hi All,

I want to create a basic application that browses a excel document and converts its contents into a xml format, any help would be helpful.

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Kiran

Posted 19-Feb-13 8:54am

Kiranjagz

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Maciej Los 19-Feb-13 15:00pm

Please, provide more details. Did you know that Excel 2007 - 2010 files are based on xml files? See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-13 15:17pm

From my answer, it should be clear that the format is already XML, zipped — please see.
—SA

Maciej Los 19-Feb-13 15:25pm

I knew it, Sergey. I was first with my comment, than you with your answer ;)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-13 15:34pm

But you did not answer on the file formats. :-)
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Maciej Los 19-Feb-13 15:40pm

Yes, that's because i'm not sure what OP wants to ask.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-13 15:49pm

Well, I'm not even sure OP understands what she/he wants...
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Maciej Los 19-Feb-13 16:34pm

Agree ;)

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-02-19T09:16:00

There is no such thing as just "XML format". XML is a kind of a media for many formats. This way, the question does not have a full sense. I just want to bring to your attention that an .XLSX Excel document is already XML; you only need to unpack the file, which is actually is a ZIP format. You can learn about the format here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML_file_formats[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML[^].

What you are going to do with that is your business. From your question, I'm not sure you really know what.

[EDIT]

For working with ZIP, you can use #ziplib:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/[^].

Another option is using SevenZipSharp, a .NET wrapper of the famous 7-Zip:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip[^],
http://sevenzipsharp.codeplex.com/[^].

Both ZIP libraries are open-source.

Good luck,

—SA

Lacy00 · Answer 2 · 2013-02-19T17:08:00

Solution 2

See whether his article can help
Generate Excel from XML and Generate XML from Excel[^]

Posted 19-Feb-13 17:08pm

Lacy00