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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

workbooks.OpenXML(Filename, [Stylesheets], [LoadOption])

Synopsis

Creates a new workbook and loads an XML file into it. Returns a reference to the new workbook.

Argument

Settings

Filename

The name of the XML file to load.

Stylesheets

A number or an array of numbers indicating the XML Style Sheet (XSL) instructions to execute.

LoadOption

Determines how the XML file is interpreted or loaded; may be one of the following xlXMLLoadOption settings: xlXmlLoadImportToList, xlXmlLoadMapXml, xlXmlLoadOpenXml, xlXmlLoadPromptUser.

The idea of executing a limited number of XSL processing instructions seems strange and there are no examples of this provided in Help. Excel ignores the argument if there are no processing instructions in the XML file.

Use the LoadOption argument to control how Excel loads the XML. For example, complex XML files are “flattened” by default, which often isn’t what you want. By using the LoadOption xmlLoadMapXml, you can load the XML as an XML map and allow the user to choose the items to import into the worksheets as lists. The following code imports an XML file as an XML map:

    Set wb = Workbooks.OpenXML( _
      "http://www.mstrainingkits.com/excel/excelobjects.xml", , _
      XlXmlLoadOption.xlXmlLoadMapXml)
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