I think this is a good idea.
A possible extension could be to be able to present (parse) data
from an existing excel file on the server. Typically you could
present an excel file as a table.
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Just a question from a newbie.
Is this compatible in both IE and Netscape ?
David
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To generate
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
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
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
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
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...
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