RE: Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread david_winterbottom
Just a question from a newbie. Is this compatible in both IE and Netscape ? David "William C. Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/08/2001 11.27.37 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Tag Lib for Excel? To generate an excel speadsheet in

RE: Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread William C. Robertson
To generate an excel speadsheet in the browser, begin the page with the content type, then load the page with data. Use a separate line for each row of data and a tab to separate columns: <%@ page contentType="application/vnd.ms-excel" %> TX FL CA 1 .12 .5 .8 2

Re: Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread Matt DeCapua
Yea, we have too.   I am a servlet guy, and don't know how to make it work in a tag library (which is why I am on this list!), but this is how it works in a servlet:   response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");PrintWriter oute = new PrintWriter(response.getWriter());res

Re: Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread Marius Scurtescu
The newest version of Excel, XP, supports an XML format as far as I know. If you manage to get the specs on that then you can write an XML file. Cheers, Marius > Carlos de Luna Saenz wrote: > > I know that everybody want's to make a platform independent app... but some clients >are asking us

Re: Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread Geoff Lane
Well, Excel (and most other spreadsheets) support comma separated values (CSV) files. While that wouldn't support embeded graphics or anything, you can generate graphics from a CSV once it's imported into a spreadsheet. I've done this before with Servlets and our own framework. Just a thought. On

Re: Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread Vaibhav Bhanot
why don't you try to create one... it's not that difficult as u r thinking and it's not that much time consuming... -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender i

Tag Lib for Excel?

2001-08-01 Thread Carlos de Luna Saenz
I know that everybody want's to make a platform independent app... but some clients are asking us to create Excel reports "on the fly" on web based apps... i was wondering if someone is doing a taglib to do this (like a table tag) and support some graphics... Greetings

RE: xtags: supplying xml as Source, Reader etc

2001-08-01 Thread DUDGEON
Thanks, that works. Strange thing is I thought I'd already tried that way! Tim -Original Message- From: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xtags: supplying xml as Source, Reader etc Try this.. and it

Re: xtags: supplying xml as Source, Reader etc

2001-08-01 Thread James Strachan
Try this.. and it should work. James - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:32 PM Subject: xtags: supplying xml as Source, Reader etc > I've been looking into using xtags for xslt transformations and initial > though

xtags: supplying xml as Source, Reader etc

2001-08-01 Thread DUDGEON
I've been looking into using xtags for xslt transformations and initial thoughts look good. One question I can't fathom out at present is how to supply the xml (or xsl) as anything other than a url or a string. If, for instance I already have the xml available in the page as a javax.xml.transform.