How to generate XML from an Excel VBA macro?

Question

So, I\'ve got a bunch of content that was delivered to us in the form of Excel spreadsheets. I need to take that content and push it into another system. The other system ta

Answer 1

This one more version - this will help in generic

Public strSubTag As String
Public iStartCol As Integer
Public iEndCol As Integer
Public strSubTag2 As String
Public iStartCol2 As Integer
Public iEndCol2 As Integer

Sub Create()
Dim strFilePath As String
Dim strFileName As String

'ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C3").Activate
'strTag = ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Value
strFilePath = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B4").Value
strFileName = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B5").Value
strSubTag = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("F3").Value
iStartCol = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("F4").Value
iEndCol = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("F5").Value

strSubTag2 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("G3").Value
iStartCol2 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("G4").Value
iEndCol2 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("G5").Value

Dim iCaptionRow As Integer
iCaptionRow = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B3").Value
'strFileName = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B4").Value
MakeXML iCaptionRow, iCaptionRow + 1, strFilePath, strFileName

End Sub


Sub MakeXML(iCaptionRow As Integer, iDataStartRow As Integer, sOutputFilePath As String, sOutputFileName As String)
    Dim Q As String
    Dim sOutputFileNamewithPath As String
    Q = Chr$(34)

    Dim sXML As String


    'sXML = sXML & ""

'    ''--determine count of columns
    Dim iColCount As Integer
    iColCount = 1

    While Trim$(Cells(iCaptionRow, iColCount)) > ""
        iColCount = iColCount + 1
    Wend


    Dim iRow As Integer
    Dim iCount  As Integer
    iRow = iDataStartRow
    iCount = 1
    While Cells(iRow, 1) > ""
        'sXML = sXML & ""
        sXML = ""
        For iCOl = 1 To iColCount - 1
          If (iStartCol = iCOl) Then
               sXML = sXML & "<" & strSubTag & ">"
          End If
          If (iEndCol = iCOl) Then
               sXML = sXML & ""
          End If
         If (iStartCol2 = iCOl) Then
               sXML = sXML & "<" & strSubTag2 & ">"
          End If
          If (iEndCol2 = iCOl) Then
               sXML = sXML & ""
          End If
           sXML = sXML & "<" & Trim$(Cells(iCaptionRow, iCOl)) & ">"
           sXML = sXML & Trim$(Cells(iRow, iCOl))
           sXML = sXML & ""
        Next

        'sXML = sXML & ""
        Dim nDestFile As Integer, sText As String

    ''Close any open text files
        Close

    ''Get the number of the next free text file
        nDestFile = FreeFile
        sOutputFileNamewithPath = sOutputFilePath & sOutputFileName & iCount & ".XML"
    ''Write the entire file to sText
        Open sOutputFileNamewithPath For Output As #nDestFile
        Print #nDestFile, sXML

        iRow = iRow + 1
        sXML = ""
        iCount = iCount + 1
    Wend
    'sXML = sXML & ""

    Close
End Sub