Re: [Flashcoders] xls - xml mapping

2006-06-15 Thread Scott Hyndman
What server-side language are you dealing with? If it's a .NET language, this kind of thing is very easy to accomplish. You can access the contents of excel spreadsheets in one of two ways. 1. There is a ADO.NET data provider called Microsoft Jet http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Database-Code/Accessing

Re: [Flashcoders] xls - xml mapping

2006-06-15 Thread Ron Wheeler
If you give the client an OpenOffice spreadsheet, the data is already stored in XML and you may only need a minor transformation with XSLT to get it into a format that you want for for your flash backend. OpenOffice is free and looks a lot like Excel . If your client will only deal with Excel, y

Re: [Flashcoders] xls - xml mapping

2006-06-14 Thread MetaArt
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Re: *** Spam *** [Flashcoders] xls - xml mapping

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Buchanan
Here is another, has more implementation in a non-complex xml schema http://www.meadinkent.co.uk/xl_xml1.htm a On 6/15/06 9:47 AM, "Kedar Mehendale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have designed a website in flash with a xml backend. All the products are > called from the xml datasheet. N

Re: *** Spam *** [Flashcoders] xls - xml mapping

2006-06-14 Thread Aaron Buchanan
Quick search turned this up: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/q-and-a.html A On 6/15/06 9:47 AM, "Kedar Mehendale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have designed a website in flash with a xml backend. All the products are > called from the xml datasheet. Now the client wants a simpler

[Flashcoders] xls - xml mapping

2006-06-14 Thread Kedar Mehendale
Hi, I have designed a website in flash with a xml backend. All the products are called from the xml datasheet. Now the client wants a simpler way of updating the site. He finds xml difficult to work on. How can i map an xls to the xml backend. ie the client will update the xls file & upload it