Yes I think you are right. In the end, I posted my question there : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33387511/decode-xml-spreadsheet-content-of-a-clipboard-generated-by-excel?noredirect=1#comment54574714_33387511
But I ended up doing a parser myself within 300 lines. I'll post that on my github or somewhere so that people can re-use it if someone ever have the same problem as I am. Thank you 2015-10-29 8:56 GMT+01:00 Mark Beardsley <[email protected]>: > Thinking about this suggestion again - BIFF8 - and it is a pretty poor idea > really. I am going to guess that the Clipboard class is able to determine > the type of data copied onto it and is not able to convert. Therefore, if > you are copying from an xml based Excel file, you cannot get the data back > in the older binary file format - BIFF8. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/POI-XSSF-and-ClipBoard-issue-tp5720595p5720694.html > Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
