The Nordhagen » XML http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog Øyvind Nordhagen on ActionScript and other things Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:06:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CSV to XML converter http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2007/11/28/csv-to-xml-converter/ http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2007/11/28/csv-to-xml-converter/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:42:54 +0000 Øyvind http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/blog/2007/11/28/csv-to-xml-converter/ CSVtoXMLConverter

Flash supports XML. Consultants and project managers support Excel. Have you ever wished that either Excel or any other spreadsheet application, or any other application for that matter, had a decent exporter for XML data? Not that proprietary-Microsoft-not-terribly-W3C-compliant-type, but real, simple, proper XML? Well I have, and instead of waiting for it I decided to create a small Flash application that certainly helps!

Not many desktop applications export XML at all, but make that CSV (Comma Separated …something) and quite a few do. A typical CSV export from an Excel spreadsheet could look like this:

CSV example

Now wouldn’t you much rather have that data formatted a little more like this?

XML example

Nice and tidy – and best of all; Flash supports it natively!

No more talk. Head here: http://www.oyvindnordhagen.com/flashdev/csvtoxml/

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