How to import XML with nested nodes (parent / child relationships) in Access?

Question

I am trying to import an XML file into Access, but it creates 3 unrelated tables. That is, the child records are imported into the child table, but there is no way to find out which child records belong to which parent.

How can I import data to maintain the relationship between parent and child nodes (records)?

Here is an example of XML data:

<NOTARIO>
    <C_NOT>8404180</C_NOT>
    <APE>Abalos Nuevo</APE>
    <NOM>Francisco José</NOM>
    <NOTARIAS>
        <NOTARIA>
            <PRO>23</PRO>
            <MUN>0888</MUN>
            <F_IN>1984-12-01</F_IN>
            <F_FI>1986-09-19</F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
        <NOTARIA>
            <PRO>14</PRO>
            <MUN>0569</MUN>
            <F_IN>1990-09-17</F_IN>
            <F_FI>1995-03-15</F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
        <NOTARIA>
            <PRO>21</PRO>
            <MUN>0412</MUN>
            <F_IN>1995-03-30</F_IN>
            <F_FI></F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
    </NOTARIAS>
</NOTARIO>

Answer 1

What you need to do is convert your XML data to a format that works better with Access. In particular, you need to insert the value of the parent key (if in this case C_NOT) into each child element of the node.

The following XSLT file will do it for you

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <dataroot>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </dataroot>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="NOTARIAS">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="NOTARIA">
        <NOTARIA>
            <C_NOT><xsl:value-of select="../../C_NOT"/></C_NOT>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </NOTARIA>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

XML ...

<NOTARIO>
    <C_NOT>8404180</C_NOT>
    <APE>Abalos Nuevo</APE>
    <NOM>Francisco José</NOM>
    <NOTARIAS>
        <NOTARIA>
            <PRO>23</PRO>
            <MUN>0888</MUN>
            <F_IN>1984-12-01</F_IN>
            <F_FI>1986-09-19</F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
        <NOTARIA>
            <PRO>14</PRO>
            <MUN>0569</MUN>
            <F_IN>1990-09-17</F_IN>
            <F_FI>1995-03-15</F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
        <NOTARIA>
            <PRO>21</PRO>
            <MUN>0412</MUN>
            <F_IN>1995-03-30</F_IN>
            <F_FI></F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
    </NOTARIAS>
</NOTARIO>

... :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<dataroot>
    <NOTARIO>
        <C_NOT>8404180</C_NOT>
        <APE>Abalos Nuevo</APE>
        <NOM>Francisco José</NOM>
        <NOTARIA>
            <C_NOT>8404180</C_NOT>
            <PRO>23</PRO>
            <MUN>0888</MUN>
            <F_IN>1984-12-01</F_IN>
            <F_FI>1986-09-19</F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
        <NOTARIA>
            <C_NOT>8404180</C_NOT>
            <PRO>14</PRO>
            <MUN>0569</MUN>
            <F_IN>1990-09-17</F_IN>
            <F_FI>1995-03-15</F_FI>
        </NOTARIA>
        <NOTARIA>
            <C_NOT>8404180</C_NOT>
            <PRO>21</PRO>
            <MUN>0412</MUN>
            <F_IN>1995-03-30</F_IN>
            <F_FI />
        </NOTARIA>
    </NOTARIO>
</dataroot>

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