OFC304 Excel 2003 Overview: XML Support Joseph Chirilov Program Manager.
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The Case For XML In ExcelKey Customer Challenges
Reporting and Publishing
Financial models with results to publish
Templates to fill out
Content Repurposing
Companies would benefit from being able to easily share and reuse their data
Editing
It is easy and natural to edit and manipulate data using Excel
Data Analysis
Financial models want to consume data for input
XBRL
Internal markup languages
Key Business Scenarios
End Users
Easy and natural via File Open and Save As…
Templates and Solutions: Work with Excel as usual
Power users and Solution developers
Create XML-enabled templates and solutions
Add XML Schema(s) to your workbooks
Customize the view on your XML data
Create exportable ranges in your workbooks
Excel Smart Document
XML Spreadsheet
Excel’s XML file format
Data, formatting, calculations, pivot tables, etc.
Exposes the spreadsheet data to outside processes
Enables outside processes to generate spreadsheets
Updated for new XML features
XSL Transformations
Transform non-Excel XML vocabularies into XML Spreadsheet
Allows for different “views” of data
XML Data FlatteningOpen XML data into Excel in a static, tabular way for analysis
Quick and easy approach to getting non-Excel XML vocabularies into Excel
No Export/Save to XML functionality
XML Spreadsheet
XSL Transformations
XML Data Flattening
Excel 2002
High Level Features
XML Spreadsheet
Visual Design Tool
XML Schema
Schema Inference
Import/Export
XML Maps
XSL Transformations
XML Data Flattening
Excel 2003
List
Object Model
Smart Documents
XML Schema
Support for W3C XML Schema 1.0
User-defined schemas
Schema is attached to workbook
Support multiple schemas
Provides validation on Import/Export
Schema Inference
Problem: Not everyone uses schema
Don’t have a schema? Excel will generate one for you
Uses a sample of your XML to determine a proper schema for Excel
Visual Design Tool
Hierarchical view of schema
Repeating versus Non-repeating elements
Drag/DropAssociate XML elements with ranges in the workbook
XML Maps
A translation or ‘mapping’ of a given schema into a workbook
A workbook can have several maps
Example of Multiple Map ScenariosXML data from multiple sources
Import map, Export map
Import/Export
ImportBring XML data into the workbook
Data is imported according to user layout
Ability to aggregate data with multiple imports
Validation errors are optionally reported
ExportGet workbook data back out into XML form, conforming to your user-defined schema
Validation errors are optionally reported
Object Model
Full automation support for new XML features
Mapping
Import/Export
Event model for Import/Export
QueryFind an Excel Range given an XPath
Find the XPath for a given Range
Smart Documents
Surface specific actions based on document content
Tightly integrated with the XML features
Centralized server-based deployment model
Key Takeaways
XML-enabled templates and solutions
Customer-defined XSD schemas attached to workbook
Custom views of XML data
Separate data from presentation
Export spreadsheet data as XML
Smart Document solutions
Easier Web Services Integration
High Level Context
Process Management – XML support plus smart document technology brings relevant and current business data to the desktop, and provides a platform for building business process solutions
Information Intelligence – Better visibility into business information so users can gain deeper insights, make better decisions, and take more effective action
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