How to read and write Excel XMLSS in Visual Basic.NET

[Klaus Urban]

Hi all,

How would you read and write XMLSS files in VB.NET?

I'm developing a Windows Forms Application and want to export data from
datasets. Need a bit more Spreadsheet formatting than just writing the
dataset to XML.

My first approach is to create a new XMLDocument and manually add the
attributes and child nodes. But i'm not very satisfied with it. I
searched MSDN for some XMLSS object model but did not find one.

Should I create my own serializable classes representing the Spreadsheet
XML model? How to customize the Serialization to generate XMLSS?

I'm a newbie in XML; just know about HTML and how to use typed datasets.
I downloaded the "Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas", but now I don't
know what to do with it...

Any hints are welcome.

TIA,
Klaus Urban