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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:58 PM, <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scott Klement's port of poi will create .XLSX files. Is that what they
mean by excel but in XML format?
Unfortunately, the way he phrased it ("they said it had to be an excel
'.xml' file") suggests they are really looking for something that ends
with .xml, which in turn suggests the Excel 2003 XML format. It's not
a zipped, multipart file like .xlsx, but just a single .xml file.
For example, I just saved one myself using Excel, and the resulting
.xml is directly Notepad-readable, with the following lines at the
top:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:html="
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";>
The good news is that, logically speaking, this format is actually
much saner and easier to work with from scratch than .xlsx. The bad
news is that there are probably fewer pre-existing facilities to
create Excel .xml than either .xls or .xlsx, so you may well have to
work with it from scratch.
John Y.
midrange.com
