I need to read the Excel data using Xmldocument.Plz help me
You shouldn't.
Better use Office Open XML libraries from Microsoft.
I can't give some code but, you have to extract xlsx contents with System.IO.Packaging, find the sheet you need, and then load it in XmlDocument.
But be advised that it is quite tricky and has many caveats to do so.
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For a project I'm working on I have a CSV reader to read user input. But that's quite an annoying UX, cause the user has the data in a google sheet/ execl (xlsx) format or numbers format. So if the user did not convert the file to CSV before uploading, they need to navigate to the Numbers app and export the file to file to CSV there.
So I was thinking how can I make this better, first thought, yeah just read the xlsx or numbers file ..... One day googling and trying some stuff, I still didn't find a good approach.
I would love to hear your input, I'm sure somebody out there has experience with this.
I'm thinking about creating an API for it. But I prefer to handle it natively in swift.
Thanks!
Could someone please guide me on how to extract a .docx file and load it onto a database using an ETL(Extract-Transform-Load) or ELT(Extract-Load-Transform) tool?
Assuming that the .docx file contains mostly unstructured data, isn't it an ELT tool I should go for instead of ETL?
The ETL and ELT tools I found this far didn't support the MS Word component. What other way is there to extract and store the content in a .docx file onto a database?
My requirement is to:
Extract the data inside the .docx file,
Convert them into meaningful data, and
Store them onto a data lake so I can perform data analysis, and take productive decisions based on those results.
It's just like how e-commerce companies convert customer reviews into meaningful data so they can take decisions to boost their sales. In my case, it's Word files I need to analyze.
I'm asking this because I've searched for so many ETL and ELT tools but couldn't find anything that supported Word files. Maybe it's because I haven't been searching for the right tool or the right way to do it?
If somebody knows a way, please guide me through the process. What should I start looking for? A tool, or a way to code the entire thing?
I've been looking for an answer for weeks now but didn't find a helpful answer. And it's starting to get really frustrating to see all the tools supporting every other component like social media, MongoDB, or whatever EXCEPT Word files.
You have to do this in 2 steps:
Extract the data from the .docx file to txt or xml
Now use SSIS to import. (Azure Data Factory if you are in the cloud)
I was asked to find a way to use pptx as input for a game using cocos2D on iphone.
As far as I know pptx file use Office Open XML standard and should be fully readable, including informations on animations, in any programming language.
However I only find examples/tutorial using docx files and I would like to know if such documentation exists for pptx files.
I just spent two days on that topic, and I just can't find the strength to dive into Microsoft documentation.
A .pptx file is just a ZIP file containing some images files and XML files. Wouter van Vugt's free e-book will help you understand the XML. Unfortunately the files contain a lot of boilerplate so it can take some time to find the bits you are interested in.
I have a requirement to read a pdf file having tabular format data only like in excel file. I need to extract the cell value of given pdf file.
Is it be anyhow possible using itext API. If you have something to share then please share it or any other solutions?
The PDF format is just a canvas where text and graphics are placed without any structure information. As such there aren't any iText-objects in a PDF file. In each page there will probably be a number of Strings, but you can't reconstruct a phrase or a paragraph using these strings. There are probably a number of lines drawn, but you can't retrieve a Table-object based on these lines.
In short: parsing the content of a PDF-file is NOT POSSIBLE with iText.
You can try this! This lets you read PDF pages.
I recently ran into this problem. I wasn't able to make it work with itext.
An alternate solution I found was to open a PDF document in Adobe and export it to xml. At least with my PDF's it preserved the table information and then I was able to programmatically work with the XML to generate tabular files like excel etc.
The other issue I ran into was that Adobe only lets you export one file at a time and I had lots of files. Luckily Adobe also has a merge function. I ended up merging all the files together and then exporting them as one big XML file and working with that file to generate what I needed.
Right now I'm generating HTML with a Perlscript, and then manually converting to DOC in OpenOffice. Actually I have to copy, create new "Text document", paste, save, as it treats HTML and DOC as separate file types, but that's quite unessential. That's very inconvenient.
Is there any automated way I can convert HTML to decent DOC, or some other nice format like HTML I can generate textually and convert to DOC in automated way?
(I'm on OSX)
I can't help you get to .doc, but have you seen the Open XML Format SDK from Microsoft? This will allow you to generate Office 2007 format documents (.docx, .xlsx etc) from .NET code.
Theoretically you may have some luck with this under Mono on OS X, as it doesn't require an installation of Office 2007 (for Windows) to function.
Not sure if this is what you want, but you can fairly easily generate WordML documents with code. WordML is the Word 2003 XML file format. It's NOT the same thing at the Office 2007 Open XML formats. WordML is just one file that's not too hard to create if your just doing fairly basic formatting. You could generate it directly rather than creating the HTML first. You can name the files with a .DOC extension and Word 2003 and later will open them just fine. You can resave them as real .DOC file if you want.
Here's the on-line WordML reference. I can send you some sample code if you'd like.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa212812(office.11).aspx
If you really want to create a general file format that could be converted into other formats, creating XML-FO file might be the way to go. There are a number of products out there that can take XML-FO and transform it into other files, such as Word and PDF.
We do use the components of Aspose that are available for .NET and Java. With Java you should be able to use them on OS X, too.
You have to purchase the components (i.e. they are not free), but aside from this, they are really great.