Thanks a lot for the reply!

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Mark Beardsley
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>
> Sorry to say this but as far as I am aware, there is no way to recover the
> values the user may have specified for the list validation. If you are lucky
> and the list validation has been constructed from a range of cells that ypou
> know about in advance of parsing the sheet then you would be able to recover
> the values from these cells.
>
> If you felt like working on a patch for the API that adds this
> finctionality, then I am sure there will be many appreciative users. The
> easiest place to start would be with XSSF in my opionion as it is built over
> another layer called xmlbeans. Those classes are created by parsing the XSD
> schema for the xlsx file format and so there will almost certainly be
> methods somewhere that allow you to both get and set the list validations
> contents. If you need any help getting started, I am confident that someone
> od the dev list will help with advice.
>
> Yours
>
> Mark B
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