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Old Jun 13, 2007 | 03:23 PM
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I've exported our policies from Network Associates EPO 3.6.1 into a series of XML files, but I want to be able to show what the settings are from those files.

You can obviously import them into Word and view them as code, and into Word 2007 and get into the murky World of XML schema, but I can't see a way of importing them into Word (or similar Office app) and be able to READ them in an understandable format suitable for documentation.

I've looked into XML converters but these simply don't appear to work and I can't find a schema within EPO that allows the XML files to be readable.

If anyone has any ideas how to get these exported files into a format that I can use it would be appreciated.
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Old Jun 13, 2007 | 03:53 PM
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Have you tried importing in to excel ?
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Old Jun 13, 2007 | 04:02 PM
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you need to read up on XSL to format them into a more flat structure.

i've just written a dedicated XML parser for my own needs and it's a bastid :|
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Old Jun 13, 2007 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ChefDude
i've just written a dedicated XML parser for my own needs and it's a bastid :|
Why didn't you just use Java and xerces / xalan. It's easy then

As above, I'd probably use XSLT for that job...
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Old Jun 13, 2007 | 04:30 PM
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i didn't know about that, but having looked at it the DOM is pretty much the same as MSXML3 - which I used.
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Old Jun 13, 2007 | 08:43 PM
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Not sure if this will

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

or this

Download details: Word 2003: XML Viewer

for word style xml to html ?

Of download the trial version of

Altova XMLSpy Feature Matrix

for

Editing Open XML data in Word 2007
Editing Open XML data in Word 2007 & Excel 2007
Validating Open XML data in Word 2007 & Excel 2007
Transforming Word 2007 & Excel 2007 data w/ XSLT
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Old Jun 14, 2007 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Iain Young
Why didn't you just use Java and xerces / xalan. It's easy then

As above, I'd probably use XSLT for that job...
Code:
perl -MXML::Simple -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper XMLin(shift)' file.xml
Not as easy as that

Last edited by cottonfoo; Jun 14, 2007 at 12:33 PM. Reason: stupid bbcode
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