Hi Eike,
would you think that it is usefull, to analyse the structure of the
formula and store it in an appropriate XML structure with different
attributes for operator, operand? In my opinion (as XML rookie) this
would give us the best implemetation indepedance and a well defined
interface layer between the Excel importer and the OOo spreadsheet engine.
Maybe it's possible to seperate the specifications for the expression
itself, and the cell reference which points on the input values. IMHO
would this make the syntax useable for other kinds of applications too.
I'am thinking on something like a database server plugin, that uses the
same formula syntax, but uses references to data inside the database
instead of spreadsheet cells.
Regards Jörg
Eike Rathke schrieb:
Hi Daniel,
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 13:22:25 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Last time I checked OASIS does not specify standard formula names yet.
I doubt that OASIS would ever do,
David Wheeler is working on an OpenFormula standard which could later be
used by OpenDocument.
Thanks, his current work is available at
http://www.dwheeler.com/openformula/
I should have left out the "would ever do" and been more precise in my
previous statement, it should have been more something like
"I doubt that OASIS would do this for the OpenDocument specification".
This is based on the observation that is also cited in David Wheeler's
document in section 1.5, History, referring
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200501/msg00004.html
I consider a formula standard to be more of the kind of other standards
such as MathML and XForms and the like. OpenDocument could define which
standards to use for content, but doesn't necessarily have to define the
standard itself, IMHO.
Eike
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