- From: Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@s...>
- To: Oscar Rodriguez <orodriguez@i...>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:13:42 +0800
Title: Re: XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"
You can run a simple tool UBLish
v2.0.alpha [1] to convert Excel spreadsheet into a generic
XML-Spreadsheet format, then do your XSLT to transform the raw XML
form into your intended format. Description of XML-Spreadsheet format
(which is a simple format) can be found at [2]. When you run UBLish,
just click on:
Spreadsheet Conversion --> To XML-Spreadsheet --> Convert A
Spreadsheet
and you will be prompted to select the input source Excel spreadsheet.
You will be asked whether there is a header row label to generate. For
your case, it would seem you can enter "1" to indicate Row 1 contains
header labels to be reproduced in the <Column> attributes (please
see below).
An outline of the generic XML-Spreadsheet format using your sample
data would look like:
<Sheet>
<Information>
<Filename>MyTable.xls</Filename>
<GeneratedBy>UBLish v2.0.0.kpo</GeneratedBy>
<GeneratedOn>20081219 101332</GeneratedOn>
</Information>
<Row rowIndex="1">
<Column rowIndex="1" columnIndex="1" columnLabel="SourceApp">SourceApp</Column>
<Column rowIndex="1" columnIndex="2" columnLabel="TargetApp">TargetApp</Column>
</Row>
<Row rowIndex="2">
<Column rowIndex="2" columnIndex="1" columnLabel="SourceApp">Competitor</Column>
<Column rowIndex="2" columnIndex="2" columnLabel="TargetApp">Commercial</Column>
</Row>
<Row rowIndex="3">
<Column rowIndex="3" columnIndex="1" columnLabel="SourceApp">Partner</Column>
<Column rowIndex="3" columnIndex="2" columnLabel="TargetApp">Business Partner</Column>
</Row>
</Sheet>
You can then transform this into any
customized form using XSLT.
Alternatively, since UBLish is open-sourced scripting, you can edit the
XML-Spreadsheet generation function so that it generates directly the
XML template you want (sort of merging Excel-->XML-->XSLT into
the script). To do this, use your favorite line editor to open the
file "bin\UBLish-v2.0.alpha.kpo" and search for "<Sheet>". That
will bring you to the function that performs the XML generation, at
which point you can edit it to your desire.
Hope this is useful to you.
Regards,
Chin Chee-Kai
[1] UBLish v2.0.alpha download,
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=238704&package_id=292341&release_id=631432
[2] Description of XML-Spreadsheet
format,
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2257107&forum_id=863486
Oscar Rodriguez wrote:
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type="cite">
Hi - I have the following
reference table in Excel
SourceApp TargetApp
Competitor Commercial
Partner Business Partner
...
Does anyone know an easy way to convert the above
table to an XML that looks as follows?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dvm name="Customer" isNew="null">
<description>DVM description</description>
<columns>
<column name="SourceApp"/>
<column name="TargetApp"/>
</columns>
<rows>
<row>
<cell>Competitor</cell>
<cell>COMMERICAL</cell>
</row>
</rows>
</dvm>
Thanks in advance
- Oscar
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