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Iris_Huang0129
Apr 01, 2021Copper Contributor
Importing XML into Excel on Mac
Hi I'm trying to manage a database more efficiently but when i tried to follow the tutorials, i dont have the import xml option in both data ribbon and developer ribbon and when i say import i mean...
CAHC-1957
Jun 02, 2021Copper Contributor
Hello,
A simple xml file from the standard Adobe software for Mac, opens up nicely in tables with the correct headings etc, but only if you option click open with Excel. If you try to import it any other way, the delimiter options are meagre/faulty, the preview box never even gets near to how it appears ones opened as mentioned above. So the wizard is not as wise as the internal wisdom of Excel when asked to open an xml file. More sophisticated banking xml files, however, it cannot handle. You get the whole file as one data record when you try to "open with Excel", unlike the simpler Adobe xml file. And trying the wizard is a total disaster. Everything gets mashed up to a very unattractive data meal. There is no way for the user to know what parameters the "open with" used, probably a delimiter existing of more than one character, something the user can not choose in the import settings.
A simple xml file from the standard Adobe software for Mac, opens up nicely in tables with the correct headings etc, but only if you option click open with Excel. If you try to import it any other way, the delimiter options are meagre/faulty, the preview box never even gets near to how it appears ones opened as mentioned above. So the wizard is not as wise as the internal wisdom of Excel when asked to open an xml file. More sophisticated banking xml files, however, it cannot handle. You get the whole file as one data record when you try to "open with Excel", unlike the simpler Adobe xml file. And trying the wizard is a total disaster. Everything gets mashed up to a very unattractive data meal. There is no way for the user to know what parameters the "open with" used, probably a delimiter existing of more than one character, something the user can not choose in the import settings.