Importing XML Data in Google Sheets
Use the XMLIMPORT function
The syntax is XMLIMPORT("url", "xpath")
e.g. for importing an XML sitemap
=IMPORTXML("https://www.hascode.com/sitemap.xml", "//\*[local-name()='url']/*[local-name()='loc']")
Select the preceding cell in Google Sheets
=INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW()-1,COLUMN())
Create a Todo List Counter in Google Sheets
Each empty cell is a todo, each filled cell is done.
That allows us the following output, that counts all preceding cells of each type:
="Done: "&(COUNTA(B3:INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW()-1,COLUMN())))&" Todo: " &COUNTIF(B3:INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW()-1,COLUMN())),""))
This outputs a label like "Done: 35 Todo: 142"