Exporting denormalized data to XML

[Andrew Thelwell]

Hi,

I have some data in Excel that is denormalized. Looks like this:

RowID RowName RowSegID StartX EndX StartY EndY NumSeats
2 1 2.1 0 7.92 0.2 0.2 16
2 1 2.2 9.1593 17.0798 0.2 0.2 16
3 2 3.1 0 7.92 1 1 16
3 2 3.2 9.1593 17.0798 1 1 16
4 3 4.1 0 7.92 1.8 1.8 16
4 3 4.2 9.1593 17.0798 1.8 1.8 16


I need to export it to XML, in a structure like this:

<Rows>
<Row id="2" name="1">
<RowSegment id="2.1" startx="0" endx="7.92" starty="0.2" endy="0.2"
numseats="16"/>
<RowSegment id="2.2" startx="9.1593" endx="17.0798" starty="0.2"
endy="0.2" numseats="16"/>
</Row>
<Row id="3" name="2">
<RowSegment id="3.1" startx="0" endx="7.92" starty="0.2" endy="0.2"
numseats="16"/>
<RowSegment id="3.2" startx="9.1593" endx="17.0798" starty="0.2"
endy="0.2" numseats="16"/>
</Row>
<Row id="4" name="2">
<RowSegment id="4.1" startx="0" endx="7.92" starty="0.2" endy="0.2"
numseats="16"/>
<RowSegment id="4.2" startx="9.1593" endx="17.0798" starty="0.2"
endy="0.2" numseats="16"/>
</Row>
</Rows>


At the moment, when I try to achieve this using the XML export feature
under the 'Developer > XML' button of the ribbon, it does not let me
export. The error message complains because the data contains
denormalized data.

Can anyone tell me if this can be achieved... or do I need to give up
now?

Many thanks,

AT

 

[Stan Gibbs]

Andrew,

I'm afraid I can't give you a direct answer to your question, but I would
suggest that if there is a way, it is very complicated and you have to be an
XML guru to do it. I haven't seen any examples of mapping of cell values to
XML attributes in Excel help or newsgroups.

I find the use of XML in Excel way too complicated and confusing. For
example, if you just load the Example.XML/Example.XSD files that are provided
in Excel 2007 help, you can't export the resulting table to XML! You can
normalize it (whatever that means) by removing the mapping of the
denormalized elements, but then you don't get the employee information! Of
what value is that?