This is a bit off topic for the FOP list, but...
Microsoft has a lot of documentation on it on their site. It is very easy to learn so you can probably figure it out yourself in a few hours. If not, send me an email and I'll try to help.
-Lou
"Farid Adhami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/10/2005 02:15:54:
> It seems that this is a most clear way for me. Unfortunately, I’m
> not so familiar with some concepts that you said. Do you know any
> document that a little more explain about this way & SpreadsheetML,
> transformer.
>
> Thanks
> Farid
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 6:56 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Excel format
>
>
> We currently do this in our production system using SpreadsheetML
> and HTML. We use SpreadsheetML for newer versions of Excel and HTML
> with some proprietary MS XML for Excel for Win2K or lower.
>
> The process is as follows:
>
> 1. Generate your XML data file and parse it using the parser of
> your choice (i.e. Xerces).
> 2. Use a transformer and a stylesheet you create to convert your
> XML into one of the aforementioned spreadsheet formats. We use
> Xalan for this part. The stylesheet was pretty simple to put together.
>
> FOP is not needed for this. I put the entire thing together in
> about two days so it isn't a big deal. However, there are some
> "gotchas" between the two formats that will drive you crazy so be careful.
>
> -Lou
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> "Farid Adhami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/06/2005 18:56:42:
>
> > I’m trying to use FOP as report engine. But I have to provide excel
> > format for the report.
> >
> > I didn’t find any information showing that FOP provides Excel output
> > or anyway that could be used for this purpose.
> >
> > Thanks for any help, in advance.
> > Farid
> >
> >
