2.4 Export XML data to Microsoft Excel

For exporting XML data from a Swift Document to Microsoft Excel (XLS) format, use the exportXLS action as shown below: The following command exports all tables and queries in the Swift Document ‘Data.xdb’ to an Excel spreadsheet ‘Data.xls’.

 
SwiftCmd.exe exportXLS Data.xdb Data.xls

You can specify specific tables and/or queries to export by listing them out on the command line as shown.

 
SwiftCmd.exe exportXLS Data.xdb Data.xls Query_1 Query_2 .. Table_1 ..

Please note that if a query has the same name as an existing table, the query will be exported. To have the table of the same name to be exported instead, please prepend the table name with a ^ as follows:

 
SwiftCmd.exe exportXLS Data.xdb Data.xls ^Name_1 ^Name_2

By default, existing output files will not be overwritten. To overwrite the output file (‘Data.xls’), use the -w option:

 
SwiftCmd.exe -w exportXLS Data.xdb Data.xls

Output Type

When exporting to Microsoft Excel, Swift supports two types of output:

  • The default output type inserts data from all specified tables and/or queries into a single sheet within the workbook. For example, the following command creates such an output:
     
    SwiftCmd.exe -w exportXLS Data.xdb Data.xls
    
  • A different type of output is supported (selected with the ‘-x’ option) that creates a separate worksheet for each exported table and/or query. For some applications this option might work better. Here is how you could use it. Note the ‘-x’ option.
     
    SwiftCmd.exe -w -x exportXLS Data.xdb Data.xls
    

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