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I'm working on an Aspen Plus automation project for my professor, and I have a few options for getting the results out of the simulation and back to the main program (Python).

 

1. Pass back results node by node in ActiveX/COM; huge pain to code, possible speed constraints

2. Export summary file, process with Fortran; somewhat less of a pain to code, learning Fortran

3. Export XML results file, process directly in main; XML file is 4-5x the size of the summary file

 

I'm not asking about the pros and cons of each method, as I think I've hit the main ones already, which basically limit me to exporting. However, there is no explicit option in the documentation for the export method for an XML results file.

 

Is it possible to export an XML results file using the ActiveX interface? Or is the export method limited to the plain text results file and summary file (in addition to .bkp etc)