Updating a xml file

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Posted on by Sh99

Hello,

I need help with looping through an excel file and updating some values from the excel file to an xml file.

example : excel file has testdata1, testdata2... etc in column A , I want to loop through this and take each value - testdata1, testdata2 and so on and update to an xml file.

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Deenuji_Loganathan_ 6,250 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@Sh99

Could you please share some screenshot of your XML file(any sample) and elaborate your use case with example?

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MichaelAnnis

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If you can create an XML file template, then I would do that and reference the places to populate with uniquecodes.

Example XML:

<FundRelationship_New>

<ExternalSystemReferenceID>DATA~EXTSYSTEMID</ExternalSystemReferenceID>

<Entity_Code>DATA~ENTITY</Entity_Code>

<Sub_entity_Code>DATA~SUBENTITY</Sub_entity_Code>

<Class_Code>DATA_CLASS</Class_Code>

</FundRelationship_New>

Then my Excel data could be:

EXTSYSTEMID	ENTITY	SUBENTITY	FUND	CLASS
Transaction001	Investor001	Portfolio001	Equity001	ClassA
Transaction002	Investor002	Portfolio002	Equity002	ClassB
Transaction003	Investor003	Portfolio003	Equity003	ClassC

PAD could loop through this, replacing text in the template for each DATA~[field].

Good luck!

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Sh99 61 on at

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Hello,

This is useful, can you share a screenshot of the code while trying to update the data in xml ? I need the screenshot of the xml command . do I use set xml element value?

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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My apolgies, I was going more for a simple "Replace Text" approach, but your way is better, so:

Read from Excel

For each row in Excel

Read XML from file

Set XML element value

Set XML element value

Set XML element value (as many as columns you have)

Write XML to file (write to a different file, don't mess up your template)

End for each

For Set XML element value, mine looks a little difficult, cuz my XPath got messed up by some garbage that was in the way of the normal path:

But there are tools to find your XPath query, or GPT should be able to help get this right. If you have the paid GPT version, I have a PAD Assistant GPT that I made that might be able to help you.

Regards,

Mike

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Sh99 61 on at

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hello,

I am not sure what to enter in the xpath query.

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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It’s supposed to be parent/child/element, but mine ended being complicated. I would share an example with GPT and ask it what it should be for the element you want to edit.

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