On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 10:16 +0100, Andrš Petr (EXT) wrote: > Anyway, something like HSSFCell.getFormatedCellValue() would be really useful. > Well, its a concious decision in POI to be as close as possible to the file format as possible (for good or for bad), and not worry about "rendering" ... xls files store the format and the value separately, and thats what POI gives you.. the actual formatting is done by Excel the application, (and that logic is not documented or public), and POI expects its clients to figure that out.
Having said that, many such functions have a place in the contrib jar, and if anyone were to supply an implementation for getFormattedCellValue, it too could be put there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
