>>Hi Francois,
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>>I'm sorry, but I don't use xml very much, and I have never used it for Excel. For Excel I always use automation which gives me total control.
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>Sure total control. But quite a strong dependancy on MS Excel itself. For this download facility I am trying to avoid it in full. In view of the xml format required, that does not look like rocket science. I can certainly export via COM (done that of course, never found it 100% robust).
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>I am just looking for some nice fellow here to share their secret code base:)
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>François
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>By the way, exporting cursors via COM has always been a lousy beast for me. Except for small data sets where it definitely shines. Anyway I understand we were supposed to go the xml route!

What about the XMLAdapter class? I've never used it myself, except for a few tests, but I have only heard good things about it.