On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:28 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > The implication of your point of view seems to be: gnumeric XML is > > strictly a private format -- if you're a third party and want to > > make use of files saved in this format, you're SOL. > > Why would you be SOL? The file contains all data in an easily readable > and completely documented format. Since the formulas are included any > results are unnecessary. Yes, some programs may prefer not to need to > recalculate the results, but they should do that even when the results > are included since there is no guarantee that the result matches the > formula.
I think we're pretty much at the end of this topic, but what I meant was that, as a third party reading gnumeric XML, you're SOL is you don't have a functional replacement for the Gnumeric calculation engine at hand. Gretl, for example, has plenty of calculating power, but it's not a spreadsheet and is not geared to Excel/Gnumeric function syntax. It's therefore nice to be able to pick up formula results from XLS or ODS. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
