Opened in Excel "As a read-only workbook"
And there is even another option where you can play around with called "Use the XML Source task pane"...
So here the coding for a very small program to read database table T005 and put it in an XML-file:
And if you then open "table.xml" in Excel "as an XML list" it will show you the T005 really like in SE16:
Have fun
Harry