While you are editing your document in Enhanced Grid View you may also sometimes want to copy elements to the clipboard as they appear on the screen. This can not only be used within XML Spy, but is also very useful to quickly transfer XML data to spreadsheet-like applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel) when used from the Database/Table View in XML Spy:
If you copy this table and switch over to Excel, this is what you'll get when you paste the information into a new spreadsheet:
Please note that this command very much depends on the way the information is currently laid out on the screen (i.e. if you are using the Database/Table View for certain repeated elements, or not). If you take the same XML data that served as an example in the description of the Copy as XML-Text command, this is what you'd be getting if you were to use this command on the data in Table View: row para align bold link left Check the FAQ link mode link_section link_subsection link_text internal support faq30 XML Spy 3.0 FAQ internal support faq25 XML Spy 2.5 FAQ Whereas the same information would be copied to the clipboard in the following format, if you were to use this command in the Enhanced Grid View with tables turned off: row para align left bold Check the FAQ para link mode internal link_section support link_subsection faq30 link_text XML Spy 3.0 FAQ link mode internal link_section support link_subsection faq25 link_text XML Spy 2.5 FAQ |
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