Shang Liang | Reading Excel generated XML with ActionScript 3

RB — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:35:51 +0000

SL, thank you for this, it is a huge help!

But do you know how to deal with EGM that has multiple empty cells in a row? In the XML, Excel seems to leave out a Data element if the cell is empty. It does put a NamedCell element between each Data element, so I guess two NamedCell elements in a row means an empty cell.

So can you perhaps suggest a clean way to read the rows and columns into a 2-dimensional matrix, even if there are empty cells?

Thank you!!!!!

Shang Liang | Reading Excel generated XML with ActionScript 3

JayR — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:49:29 +0000

SL, thank you for the most interesting tip. I’m researching languages that I can build rich visual apps with and still communicate with Excel spreadsheets to pull data. I’m a beginner, but you laid things out very clearly and I can see what you did. I viewed your source files; they were a big help. Thank you so much! I’ll pop in to see what you’re doing with AS3, as it looks like this is going to be the one…

Thanks again!

Shang Liang | Reading Excel generated XML with ActionScript 3

joe j — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:28:06 +0000

Wonderful….
great discovery and timely…

thanks so