Re using doc2html to process .xls files.

> > 
> > I don't think it is quite so simple: doc2html.pl (and 
> > parse_doc and conv_doc) only use the "magic number" of the 
> > file to decide which utility to use for conversion.
> > 
> > MS Word and Excel files can have the same magic number.
> 
> Oh, yuck!
> 
> > The easy solution is a separate conversion script for excel 
> > files.  The sophisticated solution is a more advanced 
> > script which uses the information on MIME type passed to it.
> 
> It shouldn't be too hard to patch doc2html to do look at argument no. 2,
> the mime type.
> 

I have started work on version 2.0 of doc2html which will make use the
mime-type.  I will need to test it for a while, so even if I don't get
diverted to more urgent work it will be at elast a couple of weeks
before I have anything to show.

-- 
 
David J Adams
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Computing Services
University of Southampton

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