RE: XML Spreadsheets (CGIDEV2) - Progress and Problem

[Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What you are doing with CGIDEV2 can most certainly create the "newer" format .XLSX files. 

After creating the XML, Instead of using XLSGEN, you need to use XLSXGEN.

I've used this for many years.

HTH

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arnie Flangehead
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 1:09 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XML Spreadsheets (CGIDEV2) - Progress and Problem

Thanks, Vern.

I'll give it a go. I've got a fairly simple report coming up that
would be a candidate for experimentation. I'll work through your
explanation carefully. This is my first exposure to XML of any sort so
it's still looking like a dense thicket of tangled weeds rather than a
garden.

On 10/26/20, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I found that the XML 2003 Spreadsheet format is quite limiting. I
> believe that you can't include images in a spreadsheet with this format.
>
> I was curious about multiple worksheets, so I created a spreadsheet [...]