ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Convert xml to xls with spreadsheet sdk

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How to convert xml to xls with spreadsheet sdk in C# and ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

This code in C# shows how to convert xml to xls with spreadsheet sdk with this how to tutorial

Every ByteScout tool includes simple example C# source codes that you can get here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is the bundle that includes three SDK tools for data extraction from PDF, scans, images and from spreadsheets: PDF Extractor SDK, Data Extraction SDK, Barcode Reader SDK and you can use it to convert xml to xls with spreadsheet sdk with C#.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to convert xml to xls with spreadsheet sdk.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Xml;
using Bytescout.Spreadsheet;
using Bytescout.Spreadsheet.Constants;

namespace ConvertXmlToXlsExample
{
	/// <summary>
	/// This example demonstrates how to create Excel spreadsheet from some XML data.
	/// Since your XML file has different structure the example just shows technique of XML data reading 
	//  and spreadsheet creation.
	/// </summary>
	class Program
	{
		static void Main()
		{
			// Load XML document
			XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
			xmlDocument.Load(@"sample.xml");

			// Read columns information from XML data
			List<string> columns = new List<string>();
			XmlNodeList columnNodeList = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("/Report/Columns/Column");
			foreach (XmlNode node in columnNodeList)
				columns.Add(node.Attributes["Name"].Value);

			// Read row nodes from XML data
			XmlNodeList rowNodeList = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("/Report/ReportData");
			

			// Create new spreadsheet
			Spreadsheet spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
			spreadsheet.RegistrationName = "demo";
			spreadsheet.RegistrationKey = "demo";
			// Add worksheet
			Worksheet worksheet = spreadsheet.Worksheets.Add();
			
			// Add column headers
			for (int c = 0; c < columns.Count; c++)
			{
				worksheet[0, c].Value = columns;
				worksheet[0, c].FillPattern = PatternStyle.Solid;
				worksheet[0, c].FillPatternForeColor = Color.LightGray;
			}

			int rowIndex = 1;

			// Add rows
			foreach (XmlNode rowNode in rowNodeList)
			{
				// Get cell values from XML data
				foreach (XmlNode childNode in rowNode.ChildNodes)
				{
					// Get cell info from XML data
					int columnIndex = columns.IndexOf(childNode.Name);
					string cellValue = childNode.InnerText;

					Cell cell = worksheet[rowIndex, columnIndex];

					// Set cell text
					cell.Value = cellValue;
					// Set cell text alignment
					cell.AlignmentHorizontal = columnIndex == 0 ? AlignmentHorizontal.Left : AlignmentHorizontal.Right;
				}

				// Add the row to the table
				rowIndex++;
			}

			// Fit columns width to cell data
			for (int c = 0; c < columns.Count; c++)
				worksheet.Columns.AutoFit();

			// Save document to file
			spreadsheet.SaveAsXLS("result.xls");

			// Cleanup 
			spreadsheet.Dispose();

			// Open document in Excel
			Process.Start("result.xls");
		}
	}
}