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Radim Rehurek edited comment on TIKA-1020 at 3/7/18 5:57 PM:
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We just hit this bug too.
I say "bug" because Excel spreadsheets are really structured tables, just like
[~arodkin] explained 5 years ago. Interpreting them as unorganized cells makes
little sense.
[~tpalsulich] IMO empty rows could be reported too, but in our use-case, the
critical thing is not to have jumbled records caused by empty cells in a single
row.
was (Author: piskvorky):
We just hit this bug too.
I say "bug" because Excel spreadsheets are really structured tables, just like
[~arodkin] explained 5 years ago. Interpreting them as unorganized cells makes
little sense.
[~tpalsulich] IMO empty rows could be reported too, but in our use-case, the
critical thing is not to have jumbled records (caused by missing cells in a
single row).
> Excel 2010 parser missing cell values are not reported resulting in missing
> columns values
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-1020
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1020
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 1.2
> Environment: java 1.6 & 1.7
> Reporter: Neil Blue
> Priority: Major
> Labels: newbie, patch
>
> When parting an excel 2010 table, if a worksheet has a missing value, then it
> is not reported in the sax handler. As a result a missing value can result in
> unordered data.
> For example given the table:
> {code:title=Bar.java|borderStyle=solid}
> A B B
> 1 2 3
> 4 6
> 7 8 9
> {code}
> the returned sax handler reports elements
> {code:title=Bar.java|borderStyle=solid}
> <tr><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><tr>
> <tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><tr>
> <tr><td>4</td><td>6</td><tr>
> <tr><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><tr>
> {code}
> As a result the handler can detect that the third row as incomplete cell
> values but it is ambiguous which columns have missing data.
> As a possible fix for this excel 2010 xml data contains the cell reference
> value, which could be returned to the sax handler as an attribute.
> {code:title=Bar.java|borderStyle=solid}
> *** XSSFExcelExtractorDecorator.java 2012-11-08 10:51:55.881207100 +0000
> --- XSSFExcelExtractorDecorator.java.1 2012-11-08 10:59:02.972223700 +0000
> ***************
> *** 200,206 ****
>
> public void cell(String cellRef, String formattedValue) {
> try {
> ! xhtml.startElement("td");
>
> // Main cell contents
> xhtml.characters(formattedValue);
> --- 200,208 ----
>
> public void cell(String cellRef, String formattedValue) {
> try {
> ! AttributesImpl attributes = new AttributesImpl();
> ! attributes.addAttribute(null, "cellRef", "cellRef", null,
> cellRef) ;
> ! xhtml.startElement("td",attributes);
>
> // Main cell contents
> xhtml.characters(formattedValue);
> {code}
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