To use the Worksheet package, you must first issue the following call to the procedure with, which provides interactive access to procedures organized in packages.

Maple worksheets are represented in Maple as XML documents. This makes it unnecessary to know the (undocumented) storage format for the Maple worksheet and allows you to use new and existing tools for manipulating XML document instances. (For details, see XMLTools.) To create an XML representation of a worksheet,  use the ReadFile and FromString commands.

Note that Maple worksheets can be imported into Maple in two different formats:
 
    -- "mw", this is the same format that is used by the Standard worksheet,

    -- "maple8_xml", the format introduced in Maple 8.

Option `format` can be used to specify which XML representation to generate.

Display the worksheet you loaded by using the Display command.

Use the Convert   utility to convert worksheets in "mw" format to worksheets in "maple8_xml" format and back.

To convert a worksheet to ".mws" format, use the ToString command.

Now that you have the worksheet exported as an XML document, you can use functions from the XMLTools package to access its subnodes.