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There's another approach that can be ok for very simple scenarios, and that's to put the tags directly in the spreadsheet and export as ascii or unicode, using a PERL script or the like for final cleanup. This may seem goofy, but it's pretty easy to make a sheet that looks like: <yourtag> | =refToFormulaForYourvalueHere | </yourtag> where the | are meant to represent cell boundaries. Copy those rows as many times as you need and export as text and you'll get a run of text that looks like <yourtag>123</yourtag> <yourtag>456</yourtag> You can trivially wrap it in a document start/end tag, put on an XML declaration if you like, use string concatenation functions to build up attributes, etc. Definitely not for complex nestings or mappings to elaborate existing XML schemas, but it's using the spreadsheet language in a style that's pretty natural for a spreadsheet person. Depending on what else is in the sheet and how you export, you may wind up with other stuff before or after in the file, but it should be trivial to add marker lines and use a PERL script or the like to clip out the part you need. Also, once you've got that simple XML, it's really easy to transform it to something more elaborate using XSLT or other XML tools. As I say, not the right approach for the most robust of complex cases, but can be a really fine way to pull out simple information. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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