dlcohen1 wrote:
> 12/13/06
>
> David:
>
> Thank you for adding the conversion from xls to JSON. It works
> great. I have an associated question; after much testing I realize
> that I cannot use dates in the spreadsheet that is used to create
> JSON under Babel that include the month and day and year (e.g.
> 12/13/06 or 13-Dec-06) and that you cannot use numbers in the label
> column of the spreadsheet. Is there a way and correct format to use
> dates in the spreadsheet or some creative alternative, if so what is
> the way? Not being able to use numbers in the label column is not a
> problem, though I wanted to make people aware of it so they know to
> use an alternative to numbers.
>
I've fixed Babel so that it *should* recognize dates, booleans, and
numbers in Excel. But for the life of me I can't get Excel itself to
parse the dates I enter :S
Anyway, please give it a try. Here's the xls file I used to test:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/misc/conferences.xls
As for using numbers in the label column, I'll take a look later on.
Cheers,
David
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