Excel to DITA join cells?

[Gimber78]

Hi! is it possible to save the union of cells when converting from xlsx to dita?

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[Radu]

Hi,
I created a small Excel sheet which has a cell spanning multiple rows and columns.
I tried using Oxygen 25.1 to copy the cells from Excel and then paste them in a DITA topic and it seems to work for me.

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How do you convert the Excel to DITA on your side? What version of Oxygen are you using?
Regards,
Radu

[Gimber78]

Hi Radu!
Oxygen 25.0

Yes, copying and pasting works.
But there are a lot of tables in the excel file and it's not convenient.
After running the conversion script, the join of the cells gets lost

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[Radu]

Hi,
I see, you are using our batch documents converter add-on.
We have an internal issue to improve the batch converter to also take into account cell spans, I added your feedback on the opened issue.
If we manage to fix it in a future version I will update this forum thread.
Regards,
Radu

[Gimber78]

HI!
Wrote a python converter
xlsx to xml(data)
there should be no empty "None" values in the original excel.
Accepts a file as input sample2.xlsx
On the way out output.xml
Maybe it will be useful to someone.

Tabl in excel

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tabl in xml

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out pdf

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convert.zip

[Radu]

Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to post an update with your solution!
Regards,
Radu

[Gimber78]

update, bugs fixed.
tables with more than 19 rows did not work (etc.)

converter_xlsx_xml_v4_.py.zip