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Making XML file using Excel macro

Asked by Frosty555 in VB Script, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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I'm making an XML file from some data in an excel spreadsheet. I'm using a VBA macro to do it. I basically build a big string called XMLFileText by tacking on the various values of different cells. I use the [CDATA ... ]] operator in XML so that I don't have to escape some the text, as you'll see in the code snippet.

Then I write it out to an XML file using FileSystemObject.TextStream.Write().

But my problem is that the excel file sometimes contains french characters, and that little << >> french style quote (I think it's called a "guillemets"), and other weird characters. When there are non-ascii characters in the string, The TextStream.Write() call fails with "Invalid Procedure Call Or Arguement".

I also know XML itself doesn't just handle unicode text. You need to excape it somehow, and I don't know if the [[CDATA ]] construct does it for me or not.

The code below isn't all my code, just an example. So can someone help me format the excel cells in a way that I can encode it into a standard ascii xml file using file system object?
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Dim ERsheet As Worksheet
    Set ERsheet = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("DATA")
 
    Dim XMLFileText as String
    XMLFileText = ""
    XMLFileText = XMLFileText & "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""ISO8859-1"" ?>" & vbNewLine
    XMLFileText = XMLFileText & "<!DOCTYPE EXAM SYSTEM ""enhexam.dtd"">" & vbNewLine
    XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(0) & UCase("<EXAM>") & vbNewLine
    ....
                             XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<question><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(2)).Value) & UCase("]]></question>") & vbNewLine
                            XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<response1><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(3)).Value) & UCase("]]></response1>") & vbNewLine
                            XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<message1><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(4)).Value) & UCase("]]></message1>") & vbNewLine
                            XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<response2><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(5)).Value) & UCase("]]></response2>") & vbNewLine
                            XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<message2><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(6)).Value) & UCase("]]></message2>") & vbNewLine
                            XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<response3><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(7)).Value) & UCase("]]></response3>") & vbNewLine
                            XMLFileText = XMLFileText & tabs(3) & UCase("<message3><![CDATA[") & Trim(.Range(newcolname(8)).Value) & UCase("]]></message3>") & vbNewLine
 
 
 
    If createfileflag = True Then
        Dim FSO As Object
        Dim newFile As Object
        Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        Set newFile = FSO.CreateTextFile(filepath)
        newFile.Write (XMLFileText)
        newFile.Close
        Set newFile = Nothing
        Set FSO = Nothing
   End If
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Zones: VB Script, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software
Tags: Microsoft Excel
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