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I have an xml file in the form

<Executive
<ExecNameJohn Smith</ExecName
<ExecTitleVP</ExecTitle
<Subordinates
<Employee
<EmpNameAlice Waters</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameJohn Thomas</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameMichael Rhodes</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
</Subordinates
</Executive

It contains lists of repeating lists. I can import the xml into Excel 2003
and 2007, but when I try to export the file as xml I get a message "Cannot
save or export XML data. The XML maps in this workbook are not exportable."

Does Excel not support lists of lists? This is pretty basic XML hierarchy
stuff.
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Hi

I copied your data to Notepad and saved as Test.xml.
I opened it in XL2003 and it opened fine.
I saved it as XML as Copy of Test.xml and it worked fine.

On opening the new Copy of Test.xml in Notepad it produced the following

<?xml version="1.0"?
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
<DocumentProperties xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
<LastAuthorRoger Govier</LastAuthor
<Created2006-12-15T00:29:20Z</Created
<Version11.8107</Version
</DocumentProperties
<OfficeDocumentSettings
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
<DownloadComponents/
<LocationOfComponents HRef="file:///D:\"/
</OfficeDocumentSettings
<ExcelWorkbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<WindowHeight7425</WindowHeight
<WindowWidth14715</WindowWidth
<WindowTopX480</WindowTopX
<WindowTopY585</WindowTopY
<MaxChange0.00001</MaxChange
<Iteration/
<ProtectStructureFalse</ProtectStructure
<ProtectWindowsFalse</ProtectWindows
</ExcelWorkbook
<Styles
<Style ss:ID="Default" ss:Name="Normal"
<Alignment ss:Vertical="Bottom"/
<Borders/
<Font/
<Interior/
<NumberFormat/
<Protection/
</Style
<Style ss:ID="s21"
<Font ss:Bold="1"/
</Style
<Style ss:ID="s22"
<Font ss:Bold="1"/
<Interior ss:Color="#C0C0C0" ss:Pattern="Solid"/
</Style
</Styles
<Worksheet ss:Name="test"
<Table ss:ExpandedColumnCount="4" ss:ExpandedRowCount="5"
x:FullColumns="1"
x:FullRows="1"
<Column ss:Width="59.25"/
<Column ss:Index="3" ss:Width="177.75"/
<Column ss:Width="170.25"/
<Row
<Cell ss:StyleID="s21"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Executive</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/ExecName</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/ExecTitle</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Subordinates/Employee/EmpName</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Subordinates/Employee/EmpTitle</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Alice Waters</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Thomas</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Michael Rhodes</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
</Table
<WorksheetOptions xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<Selected/
<Panes
<Pane
<Number3</Number
<ActiveRow7</ActiveRow
<ActiveCol1</ActiveCol
</Pane
</Panes
<ProtectObjectsFalse</ProtectObjects
<ProtectScenariosFalse</ProtectScenarios
</WorksheetOptions
</Worksheet
</Workbook


I have never used the import or export of XML before, but it all looks
OK to me.

--
Regards

Roger Govier


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I have an xml file in the form

<Executive
<ExecNameJohn Smith</ExecName
<ExecTitleVP</ExecTitle
<Subordinates
<Employee
<EmpNameAlice Waters</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameJohn Thomas</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameMichael Rhodes</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
</Subordinates
</Executive

It contains lists of repeating lists. I can import the xml into Excel
2003
and 2007, but when I try to export the file as xml I get a message
"Cannot
save or export XML data. The XML maps in this workbook are not
exportable."

Does Excel not support lists of lists? This is pretty basic XML
hierarchy
stuff.


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You'll notice that the structure of the XML in your example has changed
though. In my original example, I had a single top level element <Executive
with three sub-elements <Employees. In your resulting file, the <Executive
element is repeated for each of the <Employee elements. I need to maintain
the original structure which should work using the Export XML... option, but
unfortunately it doesn't work. Using the Export XML... option creates a
simple "XML data only" file. Saving the file as XML, as you did, creates all
the additional schema information and even changes the tag names.

I can import and re-export the following correctly:
<Subordinates
<Employee
<EmpNameAlice Waters</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameJohn Thomas</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameMichael Rhodes</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
</Subordinates

But if I add the Parent <Executive element, then it doesn't work.


"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi

I copied your data to Notepad and saved as Test.xml.
I opened it in XL2003 and it opened fine.
I saved it as XML as Copy of Test.xml and it worked fine.

On opening the new Copy of Test.xml in Notepad it produced the following

<?xml version="1.0"?
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
<DocumentProperties xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
<LastAuthorRoger Govier</LastAuthor
<Created2006-12-15T00:29:20Z</Created
<Version11.8107</Version
</DocumentProperties
<OfficeDocumentSettings
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
<DownloadComponents/
<LocationOfComponents HRef="file:///D:\"/
</OfficeDocumentSettings
<ExcelWorkbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<WindowHeight7425</WindowHeight
<WindowWidth14715</WindowWidth
<WindowTopX480</WindowTopX
<WindowTopY585</WindowTopY
<MaxChange0.00001</MaxChange
<Iteration/
<ProtectStructureFalse</ProtectStructure
<ProtectWindowsFalse</ProtectWindows
</ExcelWorkbook
<Styles
<Style ss:ID="Default" ss:Name="Normal"
<Alignment ss:Vertical="Bottom"/
<Borders/
<Font/
<Interior/
<NumberFormat/
<Protection/
</Style
<Style ss:ID="s21"
<Font ss:Bold="1"/
</Style
<Style ss:ID="s22"
<Font ss:Bold="1"/
<Interior ss:Color="#C0C0C0" ss:Pattern="Solid"/
</Style
</Styles
<Worksheet ss:Name="test"
<Table ss:ExpandedColumnCount="4" ss:ExpandedRowCount="5"
x:FullColumns="1"
x:FullRows="1"
<Column ss:Width="59.25"/
<Column ss:Index="3" ss:Width="177.75"/
<Column ss:Width="170.25"/
<Row
<Cell ss:StyleID="s21"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Executive</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/ExecName</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/ExecTitle</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Subordinates/Employee/EmpName</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Subordinates/Employee/EmpTitle</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Alice Waters</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Thomas</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Michael Rhodes</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
</Table
<WorksheetOptions xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<Selected/
<Panes
<Pane
<Number3</Number
<ActiveRow7</ActiveRow
<ActiveCol1</ActiveCol
</Pane
</Panes
<ProtectObjectsFalse</ProtectObjects
<ProtectScenariosFalse</ProtectScenarios
</WorksheetOptions
</Worksheet
</Workbook


I have never used the import or export of XML before, but it all looks
OK to me.

--
Regards

Roger Govier


"Dean" wrote in message
...
I have an xml file in the form

<Executive
<ExecNameJohn Smith</ExecName
<ExecTitleVP</ExecTitle
<Subordinates
<Employee
<EmpNameAlice Waters</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameJohn Thomas</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameMichael Rhodes</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
</Subordinates
</Executive

It contains lists of repeating lists. I can import the xml into Excel
2003
and 2007, but when I try to export the file as xml I get a message
"Cannot
save or export XML data. The XML maps in this workbook are not
exportable."

Does Excel not support lists of lists? This is pretty basic XML
hierarchy
stuff.



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Hi

I understand what you are now saying, but as this is my first time of
using XML I'm afraid I can't offer any help.
I merely tried to import and export to see if it worked in XL2003 on my
machine.
Hopefully, someone else will be able to offer some support.

--
Regards

Roger Govier


"Dean" wrote in message
...
You'll notice that the structure of the XML in your example has
changed
though. In my original example, I had a single top level element
<Executive
with three sub-elements <Employees. In your resulting file, the
<Executive
element is repeated for each of the <Employee elements. I need to
maintain
the original structure which should work using the Export XML...
option, but
unfortunately it doesn't work. Using the Export XML... option creates
a
simple "XML data only" file. Saving the file as XML, as you did,
creates all
the additional schema information and even changes the tag names.

I can import and re-export the following correctly:
<Subordinates
<Employee
<EmpNameAlice Waters</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameJohn Thomas</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameMichael Rhodes</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
</Subordinates

But if I add the Parent <Executive element, then it doesn't work.


"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi

I copied your data to Notepad and saved as Test.xml.
I opened it in XL2003 and it opened fine.
I saved it as XML as Copy of Test.xml and it worked fine.

On opening the new Copy of Test.xml in Notepad it produced the
following

<?xml version="1.0"?
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
<DocumentProperties xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
<LastAuthorRoger Govier</LastAuthor
<Created2006-12-15T00:29:20Z</Created
<Version11.8107</Version
</DocumentProperties
<OfficeDocumentSettings
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
<DownloadComponents/
<LocationOfComponents HRef="file:///D:\"/
</OfficeDocumentSettings
<ExcelWorkbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<WindowHeight7425</WindowHeight
<WindowWidth14715</WindowWidth
<WindowTopX480</WindowTopX
<WindowTopY585</WindowTopY
<MaxChange0.00001</MaxChange
<Iteration/
<ProtectStructureFalse</ProtectStructure
<ProtectWindowsFalse</ProtectWindows
</ExcelWorkbook
<Styles
<Style ss:ID="Default" ss:Name="Normal"
<Alignment ss:Vertical="Bottom"/
<Borders/
<Font/
<Interior/
<NumberFormat/
<Protection/
</Style
<Style ss:ID="s21"
<Font ss:Bold="1"/
</Style
<Style ss:ID="s22"
<Font ss:Bold="1"/
<Interior ss:Color="#C0C0C0" ss:Pattern="Solid"/
</Style
</Styles
<Worksheet ss:Name="test"
<Table ss:ExpandedColumnCount="4" ss:ExpandedRowCount="5"
x:FullColumns="1"
x:FullRows="1"
<Column ss:Width="59.25"/
<Column ss:Index="3" ss:Width="177.75"/
<Column ss:Width="170.25"/
<Row
<Cell ss:StyleID="s21"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Executive</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/ExecName</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/ExecTitle</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Subordinates/Employee/EmpName</Data</Cell
<Cell ss:StyleID="s22"<Data
ss:Type="String"/Subordinates/Employee/EmpTitle</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Alice Waters</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Thomas</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
<Row
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"John Smith</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"VP</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Michael Rhodes</Data</Cell
<Cell<Data ss:Type="String"Sales Rep</Data</Cell
</Row
</Table
<WorksheetOptions xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<Selected/
<Panes
<Pane
<Number3</Number
<ActiveRow7</ActiveRow
<ActiveCol1</ActiveCol
</Pane
</Panes
<ProtectObjectsFalse</ProtectObjects
<ProtectScenariosFalse</ProtectScenarios
</WorksheetOptions
</Worksheet
</Workbook


I have never used the import or export of XML before, but it all
looks
OK to me.

--
Regards

Roger Govier


"Dean" wrote in message
...
I have an xml file in the form

<Executive
<ExecNameJohn Smith</ExecName
<ExecTitleVP</ExecTitle
<Subordinates
<Employee
<EmpNameAlice Waters</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameJohn Thomas</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
<Employee
<EmpNameMichael Rhodes</EmpName
<EmpTitleSales Rep</EmpTitle
</Employee
</Subordinates
</Executive

It contains lists of repeating lists. I can import the xml into
Excel
2003
and 2007, but when I try to export the file as xml I get a message
"Cannot
save or export XML data. The XML maps in this workbook are not
exportable."

Does Excel not support lists of lists? This is pretty basic XML
hierarchy
stuff.





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