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On 15/03/12 15:33, Paolo Castagna wrote:
> Hi, currently with Apache Jena you can run a SPARQL query and get
> your results, in case of a SELECT query, in text, XML, JSON, CSV or
> TSV format.
> 
> This is very convenient as people often want to use other tools to
> visualize or analyze their results.
> 
> Sometimes, people want to load data into a spreadsheet, either
> Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc. This can be
> currently achieved via CSV and TSV which, as far as I know, are
> supported by a lot of spreadsheet software (including Microsoft
> Excel and OpenOffice/LibreOffice).
> 
> For data publishers, it's a good idea to provide the same data in
> different formats, however, I am not sure there isn't a need for
> strong proprietary data formats (given we provide CSV and TSV
> already).
> 
> What do you think?

I've done this fairly recently using Apache POI. They have a streaming
implementation which is fairly easy on memory.

Not sure whether this is a good candidate for adding to the core,
however. Maybe include the code (it is, after all, small), but make
POI an optional dependency?

(Sorry, been on a training course all day. Brain not working)

Damian
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