Question

I created this macro and I get a Run-time error ’13’ at the line

Set objDomAttribute = objDomElement3.Attributes.setNamedItem(objDomDoc.createAttribute("Name4"))

My Excel file has 2727 rows. I tested it for fewer rows and it works perfectly, but for 2727 it doesn’t work. What should I do for solving that?

Option Explicit
Public Sub MakeXMLWithDom() 

Dim Q As String 
Q = Chr$(34) 

Dim objDomDoc As New MSXML2.DOMDocument60 

objDomDoc.LoadXML ("<?xml version=" & Q & "1.0" & Q & "encoding=" & Q & "utf-8" & Q & "?>") 

Dim objDomElement As MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement 
Dim objDomAttribute As MSXML2.IXMLDOMAttribute 
Dim nodeSet As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNodeList 

Set objDomElement = objDomDoc.createElement("Containers") 
Set objDomElement = objDomDoc.appendChild(objDomElement) 

 'finding the amount of rows in the excel
Dim numofrows As Long 
numofrows = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Range("E1").Offset(Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Rows.Count - 1, 0).End(xlUp).Row 

Dim iRow As Integer 

Dim Value11 As Variant 
Dim Value12 As Variant 
Dim Value13 As Variant 

Dim objDomElement1 As Variant
Dim objDomElement2 As Variant
Dim objDomElement3 As Variant

For iRow = 10 To (numofrows + 1) 

    If Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow - 1, 5) = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 5) Then 
        Value11 = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow - 1, 11).Value & ", " & Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 11).Value 
        Value12 = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow - 1, 12).Value & ", " & Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 12).Value 
        Value13 = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow - 1, 13).Value & ", " & Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 13).Value 
    Else 
        Value11 = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 11).Value 
        Value12 = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 12).Value 
        Value13 = Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 13).Value 
    End If 

    If Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 5) <> Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow + 1, 5) And Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 3) <> "" And Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 5) <> "" Then 

        Set objDomElement1 = objDomElement.appendChild(objDomDoc.createElement("Data")) 
        Set objDomAttribute = objDomElement1.Attributes.setNamedItem(objDomDoc.createAttribute("Relevant")) 
        objDomElement1.Attributes.getNamedItem("Relevant").Text = "True" 

        Set objDomElement2 = objDomElement1.appendChild(objDomDoc.createElement("Info")) 

        Set objDomElement3 = objDomElement2.appendChild(objDomDoc.createElement("Part")) 
        Set objDomAttribute = objDomElement3.Attributes.setNamedItem(objDomDoc.createAttribute("Name1")) 
        Set objDomAttribute = objDomElement3.Attributes.setNamedItem(objDomDoc.createAttribute("Name2")) 
        Set objDomAttribute = objDomElement3.Attributes.setNamedItem(objDomDoc.createAttribute("Name3")) 
        Set objDomAttribute = objDomElement3.Attributes.setNamedItem(objDomDoc.createAttribute("Name4")) 

        objDomElement3.Attributes.getNamedItem("Name1").Text = Trim$(Worksheets("EXAMPLE").Cells(iRow, 5).Value) 
        objDomElement3.Attributes.getNamedItem("Name2").Text = Value11 
        objDomElement3.Attributes.getNamedItem("Name3").Text = Value12 
        objDomElement3.Attributes.getNamedItem("Name4").Text = Value13 

    End If 
Next iRow 

objDomDoc.Save ("c:\Example.xml") 
End Sub

Answer 1

You say that Value13 in the Locals window shows as Value: Error 2015 and Type: Variant/Error. Well, okay, keep on investigating… Where does Value13 come from? Look in your Excel sheet on that line. I bet you’ll find a #VALUE! error there.

So it’s a problem in your input data, not your code. Fix that and your problem will go away.