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I'm basically trying to convert the "used range" of an Excel sheet into a specific XML dialect but I'm not seeing any dictionary item that could help.

That's a difficult question to answer without knowing what format XML you want. System Events has an XML Suite, but I'm not sure it will give you an XML string for anything but a complete document. It's also incredibly slow for anything not very simple.

And the other option is AppleScriptObjC. Here's something very simple:

Shane, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Of course, what I'm intending to do is slightly more complex, but now I know that I just need to fiddle with the XMLNode class to find what I need. Excellent :)

Jean-Christophe

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

set theList to {"a", "b", 1, 2, 3.3}
set listElement to current application's NSXMLNode's elementWithName:"array"
repeat with anItem in theList
set newNode to (current application's NSXMLNode's elementWithName:"entry" stringValue:anItem)
(listElement's addChild:newNode)
end repeat
return listElement's XMLString() as text

References:
	>Lists to XML ? (From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Lists to XML ? (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)