>From Office 2003 onwards Excel supports an XML file format as do the rest of the office products except PowerPoint. From Office 2007 onwards the open office XML formats are the standard persistence format. You'll probably have received docx files already if you know people who have upgraded.
A quick health warning, the office XML formats are fiendishly complex. I generate Word docs as part of my app and it was a complex and fiddly job to get it right. Thankfully I don't have to read them. We wound up using XSL on the server to do the job. Second lesson was that there are no really good 3rd party tools to help out - the one that looked the best was recently acquired by google. There are others but they all fell a little short. We found the Apache toolset inadequate, but that's not to say it is not a good start. My next venture will be an open source Java API on office docs. Anyone interested? We'll sell it to Facebook or whoever is the next Google after Google becomes Microsoft and Microsoft become IBM. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Flex framework doesn't have built-in support for reading Excel > files. Given that AIR has a File class which can read any kind of file, > what you need to understand is the format of a binary .xls file so that > you know how to interpret the bytes that you read. I googled "xls file > format" and found > > http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf > > Gordon Smith > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of dormousecheck > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 8:05 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] How to use air to read Excel file? > > > > Recently, i meet a problem, how to use air to read .xls file. Search > in the google, there is little messages about it? > Can anyone tell how to handle this, Thanks! > > dormouse >
