Comments on: Excel XML error: “Too many tags”

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:13:25 +0000

Wow, thanks!!!!!!!!

Microsoft has so usefull explanations ;)

By: Matt Winckler

Matt Winckler — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:45:42 +0000

If you're appending a number anyway, I would recommend just using a sequential integer (0, 1, 2, 3...n) when generating the workbooks. Random numbers, by definition, are not guaranteed to be unique. You have just as much chance of generating random number N a second time as you did of generating it the first time.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:39:17 +0000

as per Kunal Bhambhani,

I was getting the error because of duplicated workbooks with the same name. I fixed it by adding a random number and the users name. (random number alone seemed kinda weird)

By: OryK

OryK — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:45:50 +0000

Works Y removed

Ad than works thnaks a lot.

By: Kunal Bhambhani

Kunal Bhambhani — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:51:08 +0000

In my case I was getting the follwoing error:-
XML ERROR in Workbook Setting
REASON: Too many tags
FILE: C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\KTEZW9ER\PCAPAnalysis[1].xls
GROUP: Workbook
TAG: Worksheet
ATTRIB: Name
VALUE: Detailed Report

It does not come up anymore since I changed the name of the file to a dynamically generated random number in the contentdisposition header of the response. I have a web application and having the same filename in the response header some how gave teh above error.

By: TulsaDev

TulsaDev — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:06:29 +0000

I also cam across this error while trying to use the CarlosAg.ExcelXmlWriter.

I had multiple sheets in a workbook, which were named uniquely, but I then added a style, and style names must be unique for each worksheet as well.

I ended up appending the worksheet name to the style name.

By: Alan Painter

Alan Painter — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:33:42 +0000

I ran into something similar from a .xml written by Excel 2003.

XML ERROR in Style REASON: Too many tags FILE: MyFileName.xml GROUP: Styles TAG: Style ATTRIB: Name VALUE: Normal

Turned out that two Style elements had the same ss:Name attribute values. Both “Default” and “s21″ had ss:Name=”Normal”.

I got rid of one of the name attributes ( the one on the Default Style) and Excel read again. Upon re-writing, the second “Normal” was magically changed to “Normal_”.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:55:27 +0000

By removing the nameless ‘default’ tag, I meant.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:43:22 +0000

My errors were:

XML ERROR in Style REASON: Bad Value

XML ERROR in Style REASON: Too many tags

Solved them by removing the tag at the beginning of the XML.

By: RL

RL — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:40:21 +0000

This happened to me recently with a monsterous spreadsheet that had a duplicate ‘Default’ style (two entries with the same Id tag seems to be the trick). When I exported it, there were two ‘Default’ styles in the tag, causing an error when re-opening the XML file. Removing it from the XML eliminated the problem. Now I just have to figure out how to get rid of this odd style.