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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
(Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that
creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data
in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access http://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Thanks for the reply, Arvin.
The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV
text file? If you can get rid of all the extraneous XML junk, you can do almost anything you want. Word, Excel, and Access (and almost anything else) can read a plain text file without the encumbrance of having to use an xlt template. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access http://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV
text file? Is this a function found in Word, Excel, or Access? I could probably write a VBA macro in Word or Excel to take out all the tags. But then, I could just aas easily make the macro find all the appropriate tags and create a table or spreadsheet. But then I have to write it all back into the XML file. This file doesn't have a schema recognized by either Excel or Access when I directly open a file, so writing it back is a head-scratcher at the moment. (I obviously don't know much about XML, either!) Whatever I do, I have to wind up with everything back in an XML file with all the right tags in the right place. When I saw that Access opened it all up in separate tables, I thought I might have found my answer. Ed On Nov 14, 8:35 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV text file? If you can get rid of all the extraneous XML junk, you can do almost anything you want. Word, Excel, and Access (and almost anything else) can read a plain text file without the encumbrance of having to use an xlt template. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Access can write it back to XML, but you'll need to use the template. It
cannot create those templates for you. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access http://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in message ups.com... Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV text file? Is this a function found in Word, Excel, or Access? I could probably write a VBA macro in Word or Excel to take out all the tags. But then, I could just aas easily make the macro find all the appropriate tags and create a table or spreadsheet. But then I have to write it all back into the XML file. This file doesn't have a schema recognized by either Excel or Access when I directly open a file, so writing it back is a head-scratcher at the moment. (I obviously don't know much about XML, either!) Whatever I do, I have to wind up with everything back in an XML file with all the right tags in the right place. When I saw that Access opened it all up in separate tables, I thought I might have found my answer. Ed On Nov 14, 8:35 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV text file? If you can get rid of all the extraneous XML junk, you can do almost anything you want. Word, Excel, and Access (and almost anything else) can read a plain text file without the encumbrance of having to use an xlt template. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
I just took a sample file, imported it into Access, took one of the
tables and modified it, then tried to export the file back into XML. All it did was take just the one table and export it, rendering the rest of the XML useless. So I need to learn about how to create an Access template for these files that will accept a change to one table and recreate a useable XML file? I'm beginning to think I would be better off in a VBA macro in Excel, parsing this out as text and writing it to a worksheet, then writing it back with the tags thrown in. Ed On Nov 14, 9:46 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: Access can write it back to XML, but you'll need to use the template. It cannot create those templates for you. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmvp.com "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV text file? Is this a function found in Word, Excel, or Access? I could probably write a VBA macro in Word or Excel to take out all the tags. But then, I could just aas easily make the macro find all the appropriate tags and create a table or spreadsheet. But then I have to write it all back into the XML file. This file doesn't have a schema recognized by either Excel or Access when I directly open a file, so writing it back is a head-scratcher at the moment. (I obviously don't know much about XML, either!) Whatever I do, I have to wind up with everything back in an XML file with all the right tags in the right place. When I saw that Access opened it all up in separate tables, I thought I might have found my answer. Ed On Nov 14, 8:35 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: Is it possible to walk through the XML data and extract it to a plain CSV text file? If you can get rid of all the extraneous XML junk, you can do almost anything you want. Word, Excel, and Access (and almost anything else) can read a plain text file without the encumbrance of having to use an xlt template. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
So wouldn't something like:
INSERT INTO File2 SELECT * FROM File1 WHERE myCondition=True do the trick for your data manipulation? On Nov 14, 10:22 am, Ed from AZ wrote: Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Um, I have no idea, Ilia. How would I set that up?
Ed On Nov 14, 11:55 am, ilia wrote: So wouldn't something like: INSERT INTO File2 SELECT * FROM File1 WHERE myCondition=True do the trick for your data manipulation? On Nov 14, 10:22 am, Ed from AZ wrote: Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Okay - an Append Query, according to Access Help files.
That would probably be okay, once I got the hang of making things happen. Right now, though, I'm really stuck on getting all these tables back into an XML file. If I can't do that, then I really need to consider another method. Thanks for chiming in with help. I appreciate the interest in getting a newbi un-lost! Ed On Nov 14, 1:48 pm, Ed from AZ wrote: Um, I have no idea, Ilia. How would I set that up? Ed On Nov 14, 11:55 am, ilia wrote: So wouldn't something like: INSERT INTO File2 SELECT * FROM File1 WHERE myCondition=True do the trick for your data manipulation? On Nov 14, 10:22 am, Ed from AZ wrote: Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Can I get Excel to import XML like Access?
Just open a new query, select SQL view, and paste that text. Replace
myCondition=True with your actual condition and File1/File2 with actual table names. On Nov 14, 3:48 pm, Ed from AZ wrote: Um, I have no idea, Ilia. How would I set that up? Ed On Nov 14, 11:55 am, ilia wrote: So wouldn't something like: INSERT INTO File2 SELECT * FROM File1 WHERE myCondition=True do the trick for your data manipulation? On Nov 14, 10:22 am, Ed from AZ wrote: Thanks for the reply, Arvin. The main manipulation I would want to accomplish with this is moving chunks of data from one file to another. One of the Java forms is a grid-style data entry. There can be multiple forms like this (these are "child" forms??) in one XML file. The grid reminds me of an Access table in that the left column auto- numbers, and several of the cells have drop-down lists. Within the Java form grid, though, I can not copy rows, either singly or in a block, to move to another XML file or even another child form in the same file. I have been able to accomplish this by opening the files in Word and using cut and paste, but that doesn't seem like the best way to work with a grid. This would work great in Excel, where I can simply copy a hug block of rows and move them. If I had a template set up with the drop-down validations to import this into, I could add new lines and do a few other things as well. As I said, I am unfamiliar with Access. I've managed to create a few tables, queries, and generic forms and reports, but not really get into a table and manipulate the information like this. Where should I go to learn more about how to accomplish this? Ed On Nov 14, 7:29 am, "Arvin Meyer [MVP]" wrote: You can easily export data from Access to Excel, but remember that the data in Access is relational, while Excel is a flat file. If you have referential integrity enforced, it won't be as simple as exporting then reimporting back. Depending upon what you need to do, you may be able to do your manipulation in Access. If you need an analysis tool, Excel is just the ticket. For storing, manipulating, and retrieving large amounts of data, Access is the best choice. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVPhttp://www.datastrat.comhttp://www.mvps.org/accesshttp://www.accessmv... "Ed from AZ" wrote in oglegroups.com... (Windows XP Pro, Office 2003) I work with a Java-based program that creates an XML file. Normally, we do not work directly with the XML files. Sometimes, though, information needs to be transferred between XML docs, and I've been trying to find a way to do that. The Java program consists of forms to fill out, and some of them are repeating, or child, forms. This is the data that I am most interested it - seeing all the data for each of the child forms in a group where I can edit, add, delete, etc as I wish. When I try to open an XML file with Excel (either by right-clck on the XML file and Open With or XL Data XML Import), Excel creates a schema that doesn't present the information in a way I can logically work with it. When I import the file into Access, thoguh, it creates a separate table for each major section. I am not familiar with Access, except to know that I can't manipulate data in an Access table like I can in an Excel spreadsheet. I would like to be able to get my XML data to import into Excel either as separate worksheets for each major section or to be able to choose just the one section to import and work with. Failing that, I'll probably see about importing into Access, exporting the one table out and Excel, working with it, importing that table back into Access, and then saving the file. Any pointers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Ed- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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