Serialize XML as usual HTML with Excel mime-header
the HTML file will be just a simle html table with hidden formatting options. When open in browser, the browser will detect Excel mime-type and launch Excel. Excel will take the table and apply all those forumals, formatting etc itself. You do not need to do this B.S. on server side. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q301/0/44.asp?sd=MSDN http://www.15seconds.com/issue/991021.htm actually search Web for "vnd.ms-excel.numberformat" and you will find a lot of documents about that. with best wishes Alexander Kachanov -----Original Message----- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 „~„€„‘„q„‚„‘ 2001 „s. 9:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: POI project needs help - serializing XML as Excel XLS Hi everyone, Excuse me if this is a bit off topic, the website left me to believe not. I'm working along with some other folks on a Cocoon 2 Serializer for serializing XML to Excel XLS files. Once the project is further along we hope to donate it to cocoon. We've gotten quite a bit done (ported OLE 2 Compound Document Format to Java, now can Read/write/modify basic XLS files), but I need a bit of help. I'm working on adding formula support to the API, but I'm in need of some sample files. Excel has a very strange low level format for storing formulas and I want to make sure I get it right. If you have XLS samples utilizing formulas (especially complex ones) that you'd be willing to share please contact me via sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/users/acoliver2/ or at acolivernospam at nc dot rr dot com (remove the nospam). Thanks, Andrew C. Oliver -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
