Nov 14, 2008
Bumblebee: From Excel to xml.
Whew! It’s been a busy few months for your friends over at squidder. But to make up for the fact that we have been totally delinquent bloggers, we bring you Bumblebee.
What is Bumblebee, you ask? It’s a program born out of many many projects where the client has sent us excel documents and we’ve had to either move it to xml by hand or try to wrap our heads around the excel xml mapping scheme (spoiler: it sucks).
So we went ahead and wrote our own mapping program that uses simple templates to map values from an excel xml file to your own xml file.
We’ve love to hear if it helped you at out or if you have any suggestions, bugs or feature requests for future versions. Hit us up at bumblebee at squidder dawt com.
Enjoy responsibly!
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Hi,
great news – just tried out your example. It works flawlessly, even from Open Office Calc – so you don’t even need to buy Microsoft Office. This is one valueable tool, i can imagine quite a number of scenarios where this might come in handy: clients updating Excel-sheets instead of messing up XML files
Or even to generate XML files for yourself easily.
Thanks a lot!
Sebastian