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public void GenerateReport() { // These are the names of the values in WeatherData array string[] colNames = { "Date", "Temp", "Humidity", "Wind" }; // Read the XML document into an object array object[][] weatherData = ParseXml(); // Create an instance of SoftArtisans ExcelTemplate ExcelTemplate xlt = new ExcelTemplate(); // Open the template workbook string templatePath = @"..\..\templates\XMLImportTemplate.xlsx"; xlt.Open(templatePath); // Bind the WeatherData array to the template // %%=Weather.Date, %%=Weather.Temp // %%=Weather.Humidity, %%=Weather.Wind DataBindingProperties bindingProperties = xlt.CreateDataBindingProperties(); bindingProperties.MaxRows = ExcelTemplate.ALL_ROWS; bindingProperties.Transpose = true; xlt.BindData(weatherData, colNames, "Weather", bindingProperties); // Process the template to populate it with the Data Source data xlt.Process(); // Save the report xlt.Save(@"..\..\Output\XmlWeatherReport_output.xlsx"); } /// <summary> Load the XML weather report data into a 2-D /// Object array. /// </summary> /// <returns> Parsed XML data to be used with ExcelTemplate /// </returns> private object[][] ParseXml() { // Create an array with an element for each day of weather // reported in the XML document // There will be four elements in the first dimension // to hold "Date", "Temp", "Humidity", and "Wind" data // and one element in the second dimension for every day // reported in the XML document XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.Load(@"..\..\Data\XMLWeatherData.xml"); int NodeCount = doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes.Count; string[][] WeatherData = new string[4][]; for (int i = 0; i < WeatherData.Length; i++) WeatherData[i] = new string[NodeCount]; // Loop through the days of weather for (int i = 0; i < NodeCount; i++) { XmlNode DayNode = doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes[i]; // Read the weather values from the XML document into the array if (DayNode.Name == "today") WeatherData[0][i] = DateTime.Now.ToString("d"); else WeatherData[0][i] = DateTime.Now.AddDays(i).ToString("d"); WeatherData[1][i] = DayNode.SelectSingleNode("temparature").InnerText; WeatherData[2][i] = (Convert.ToDouble(DayNode.SelectSingleNode("humidity").InnerText) / 100).ToString(); WeatherData[3][i] = DayNode.SelectSingleNode("wind").InnerText; } return WeatherData; } } } |
Downloads
- Template: XMLImportTemplate.xlsx
- Output: XmlWeatherReport_output.xlsx