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Skip to main content. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Yes No. Any additional feedback? Skip Submit. Abstract elements These elements are meant to be declared in the schema, but never used as elements. Abstract elements depend on other elements being substituted for the abstract element. Substitution groups These groups allow an element to be swapped wherever another element is referenced.
Excel doesn't support the simple content of the complex type but does support the child tags and attributes defined in that complex type. The schema can be copied from an XML schema file. If you don't see the Developer tab, see Show the Developer tab. In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file you want to open. If the Multiple Roots dialog box appears, choose one of the root nodes defined in the XML schema file.
To select nonadjacent elements, click one element, and then hold down Ctrl and click each element you want to map. Tip: You can also drag the selected elements to the worksheet location where you want them to appear. Each element appears in bold type in the XML Source task pane to indicate the element is mapped. When you drag a nonrepeating XML element onto the worksheet to create a single-mapped cell, a smart tag with three commands is displayed, which you can use to control the placement of the heading or label:.
My Data Already Has a Heading Click this option to ignore the XML element heading, because the cell already has a heading to the left of the data or above the data.
When you drag a repeating XML element onto the worksheet to create repeating cells in an XML table, the XML element names are automatically used as column headings for the table. However, you can change the column headings to any headings that you want by editing the column header cells.
My Data Has Headings When this check box is selected, existing data can be used as column headings when you map repeating elements to your worksheet. If you want the new table to be an XML table, do the following:. Add an XML Map to the new workbook by using the. You should save these files if you want to add XML Maps to other workbooks. When you map a repeating XML element to a merged cell, Excel unmerges the cell. This is expected behavior, because repeating elements are designed to work with unmerged cells only.
You can map single, nonrepeating XML elements to a merged cell, but mapping a repeating XML element or an element that contains a repeating element to a merged cell isn't allowed.
The cell will be unmerged, and the element will be mapped to the cell where the pointer is located. You can unmap XML elements you don't want to use, or to prevent the contents of cells from being overwritten when you import XML data. For example, you could temporarily unmap an XML element from a single cell or repeating cells that have formulas you don't want to overwrite when you import an XML file.
When the import is complete, you can map the XML element to the formula cells again, so you can export the results of the formulas to the XML data file. Delete XML map information from a workbook. Append or overwrite mapped XML data. Overview of XML in Excel.
Import XML data. Export XML data. Tips: You can unmap XML elements you don't want to use, or to prevent the contents of cells from being overwritten when you import XML data. Need more help?
