Chris Kunicki posts about a new XML toolkit: Excel 2003 XML Toolkit – Get it and you too can be cool.

I kicked it around for only 10 minutes and I think I’ll be keeping it installed.

Why? It’s handy for even a novice XML’r like me. Immediate likes:

• Toolbar Icon to Toggle the XML source pane.

• View Schema makes it easy to generate a schema with a quick copy and paste

• Toolbar Icons for most of the XML functionality: Refresh selected map is nice, Toggle a cells XML borders is interesting(transparent xml).

• XML Range properties (shown in the picture to this post) is very useful. I’ve coded to grab the Xpath string of a mapped cell multiple times (usually because I couldn’t figure it out on my own), this new functionality let’s me display the Xpath and provides a very hand Copy to Clipboard button.

There’s much more to be discovered with the XML toolkit. If you’re learning Excel XML I’d definitely check it out.

Now I just need to find room for the new toolbar.