I've just started using Excel 2013 and I'm very excited to discover that it has a FILTERXML() function similar to the google spreadsheet
function IMPORTXML().
The only problem is I can't work out how to use it!
Here's the example I'm using:
I have a web address in A1:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin=-35.5350618857216,149.461642000772&destination=-42.8661188991624,147.330221410387&sensor=false&units=metric®ion=au&language=en&mode=driving
And the XPATH in A2:
with my function in A3:
=FILTERXML(a1,a2)
But this just returns a #VALUE! error. When I do exactly the same in google spreadsheet =IMPORTXML(a1,a2) it returns the correct value of 1447533.
Any one have any idea what I am doing wrong? Is the syntax for the XPath somehow different in Excel?