Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2013-12-23 Thread Abigail
HI there That exactly what i want to do .I want to convert html to excel.But i have not found a converter which supports to do that.I know there are many excel converter http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/csharp-imaging/excel-converting/ .Is there any free package for this? Thanks for any

RE: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-07 Thread fachhoch
I also have some servlets whose html is created dynamically based on user input, its basically a form engine which creates forms dynamically ,developed several years before , its a servlet which writes to response reading form data from database, now I want to read the same servlet and

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-07 Thread James Carman
Can you use the XML spreadsheet format? If so, you could perhaps (if your html is clean enough) use XSLT. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:03 AM, fachhoch fachh...@gmail.com wrote: I also have some servlets   whose html is created dynamically  based on user input, its basically a form engine which

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-07 Thread fachhoch
well I will clean my html using htmlparsers and make it well formed xml , are there any example of using xslt to create excel out of xml ? -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/convert-wicket-pages-html-to-excel-tp2131919p2134216.html Sent from the

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-07 Thread James Carman
I would perhaps try reverse-engineering it (that's what I did). You can save a spreadsheet as XML Spreadsheet and look at the XML (it's not pretty). On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, fachhoch fachh...@gmail.com wrote: well I will clean my html using   htmlparsers and make it well formed  xml  ,

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-07 Thread Jeremy Thomerson
It sounds very brittle to take HTML output from an old HTML-generating servlet, cleaning it with a parser, making it valid XML, and then transforming it into different XML which will represent a spreadsheet. Is it really that difficult to obtain the data from the DB, push it into either a) clean

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-07 Thread James Carman
Well, in my case, it was difficult, because the users wanted to be able to turn *any* page in our application into a spreadsheet representation. Having to maintain two different versions of each page would be a maintenance nightmare, IMHO. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jeremy Thomerson

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-06 Thread Zilvinas Vilutis
+1 for POI ;) Žilvinas Vilutis Mobile: (+370) 652 38353 E-mail: cika...@gmail.com On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Igor Vaynberg igor.vaynb...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for poi, used it, worked great -igor On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Adrian Wiesmann awiesm...@somap.org wrote: On

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-06 Thread Ernesto Reinaldo Barreiro
Sometime ago, I have used both POI and jexcelAPI and I do prefer the later. At least at that time, they both had the same limitation: Excel file had to be generated in memory, which could be costly in terms of server side resources. If I recalled it correctly the problem with CSV was MS Excel

RE: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-05 Thread Tim L Casey
Instead of templinging out html, template out xml and call it file.xls. There is a dom for spreadsheets. -Original Message- From: studentenaufinformatik [mailto:studentenaufinforma...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:40 PM To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: convert wicket

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-05 Thread Jeremy Thomerson
I've done this before. I'd actually suggest not doing this. Use jexcel [1] - it is much more reliable and you won't have users calling you saying this spreadsheet won't open. [1] - http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/ -- Jeremy Thomerson http://www.wickettraining.com On Wed, May 5, 2010 at

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-05 Thread Adrian Wiesmann
On 5/6/10 3:42 AM, Jeremy Thomerson wrote: I've done this before. I'd actually suggest not doing this. Use jexcel [1] - it is much more reliable and you won't have users calling you saying this spreadsheet won't open. I've written CSV before but then changed to Apache POI because of all

Re: convert wicket pages html to excel

2010-05-05 Thread Igor Vaynberg
+1 for poi, used it, worked great -igor On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Adrian Wiesmann awiesm...@somap.org wrote: On 5/6/10 3:42 AM, Jeremy Thomerson wrote: I've done this before.  I'd actually suggest not doing this.  Use jexcel [1] - it is much more reliable and you won't have users