Thanks for the info, John.
Alan Cassidy
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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:35 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries); pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Parsing an XML-XLSX file using XML-INTO
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Alan Cassidy <ACassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As I explained, the politics where I am right now are such that there
were "political" barriers right now to setting up for POI.
When I first read that, I was a little confused. Not about political barriers, but about "as I explained". But due to a random mention in another thread about the PCTECH list, I now know that a big chunk of your explanation was over there.
And that's where I saw that you were also investigating automation of the Excel-to-XML process. And, if I'm reading it right, that the parent IT department (or whatever department you may be merging into) is a .NET shop.
Well. That is a horse of a completely different color. If the "political barriers" are less to do .NET, particularly for an Excel-centric project, then my recommendation is (or at least would have been, had I known this earlier), by all means, use .NET! The baked-in support for Excel is so much stronger and so much easier to use from within .NET that it's almost a crying shame to do it any other way, when that way is available.
And if not .NET, then a whole host of Windows or platform-neutral options.
Ah well. For next time, maybe.
John Y.
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