Andy, > >1) If you are serializing to some display format (html, pdf, > etc) you'd want > >to reproduce the data and formatting as it would appear viewed in, or > >printed from excel. > > > You can of course do an approximation of this in any format via a > stylesheet. Granted it won't look *eactly* the same due to > differences > (HTML borders are vastly different from Excel's).
Yes, and it may be good to provide a standard "out of the box" stylesheet that does this. > Yes so the question I guess is assuming you can transform it > via XSLT to > whatever you like given the effort. What format (XML tag > format) makes > most since? Preserving the gnumeric compatibility? A custom format > that makes more sense? Striving for Excel 2000 XML format > compatibility? > > Currently the serializer shares the gnumeric tag language. I haven't been able to find the current gnumeric tag language documented either at gnome.org, or at the poi site at jakarta. If the new native Excel format is great, that'd be worth considering, but I don't see much of a reason that it would matter what the intermediate format is - you either want to go from an excel spreadsheet or to an excel spreadsheet (or both), but what it is in the middle doesn't matter much (except for those writing any transformation process in the middle). The only vote for the new native excel xml would be that the total universe of people who will be familiar with it will likely vastly out number those familiar with gnumeric. Geoff --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
