XML Schema Definition (XSD) data type support

Note  XML features, except for saving files in the XML Spreadsheet format, are available only in Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003.

How Excel handles XSD data types when importing XML data

The following table lists the display format that is applied when an item with a particular XSD data type is imported into an Excel worksheet. Data with an XSD format listed in the Unsupported Formats column are imported as text values.

XSD Data Type	Excel Display Format	Unsupported Formats
time	h:mm:ss	hh:mm:ssZ Hh:mm:ss.f-f
dateTime	m/d/yyyy h:mm	yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss+/-hh:mm yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.f-f Years outside of the range between 1900 to 9999
date	Date *3/14/2001	yyyy-mm-ddZ yyyy-mm-dd+/-hh:mm Years outside of the range between 1900 to 9999
gYear	Number, no decimals	yyyy+/-hh:mm Years outside of the range between 1900 to 9999
gDay gMonth	Number, no decimals
gYearMonth	Custom mmm-yy	yyyy-mm+/-hh:mm Years outside of the range between 1900 to 9999
gMonthDay	Custom d-mmm
anytype anyURI base64Binary duration ENTITIES ENTITY hexBinary ID IDREF IDREFS language Name NCName NMTOKEN NMTOKENS normalizedString NOTATION QName string token	Text
boolean	Boolean
decimal float double	General	Leading and trailing zeros will are dropped. ‘-’ and ‘+’ signs will be respected, although only negative signs will be displayed. Excel stores and calculates with 15 significant digits of precision.
byte int integer long negativeInteger nonNegativeInteger nonPositiveInteger positiveInteger short unsignedByte unsignedInt unsignedLong unsignedShort	General

How Excel display formats map to XSD data types when exporting XML data

When you export XML data, the exported data will match the data displayed in the worksheet under the following cirsumstances:

• The Excel display format is Text.
• You have not changed the display format of the data

If you change the display format of a cell with numeric, date, or time data, then the underlying value of the cell is exported. For example, you apply a Percentage display format to a cell that results in the display of 51.50%. The cell's value will be exported as .515.