MS have published an XML serialization for Excel since Office 2000: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnoffxml/html/ofhtml9.exe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:44 AM Subject: RE: POI Project Direction
> > > Excellent. This is a very exciting project. Well I will have to make time > to get the source and start studying up. The question I have after a week > of evaluting commercial products with similar goals is something I > referenced in my last message. What grammar/dtd is being used for the XML > serializers. Or is this possibly configurable?....The BIFF format would > seem to have a natural structure that is representable in XML, so basically > where are we in this department?... :) > > Wouldn't the natural thing to do is steal the one .NET is using?(I am > completely .NET illiterate, so I'm assuming they have some XML tools for > office in place.) > > > -Daniel > > > -----Original Message----- > From: acoliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: POI Project Direction > > > Yes, > > We have a Serializer for Cocoon. We plan to have a Generator for Cocoon. > Contact Nicola Ken Barrozzi who is spearheading this work. (see whoweare on > poi page for email addresses) > > POI Cocoon components are now part of Cocoon so this work will presumably go > on there (but I'm totally cool with it being discussed here as well). > > The goal of POI is to crack these file formats open wide (in java and > documentation) and provide the developers with intellectual challange ;-). > We fully intend to have a XML Serializer and Generator for every format. > > -Andy > > >On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:12:56 -0600 "Daniel Honig" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. > >Hello, > > Just wanted to ask the POI team if there are plans to offer the option of > >an export to XML instead of saving as one of the BIFF/formats. It seems > >this would be an obvious direction and invaluable to projects such as > >Cocoon. Of course the major difficulty is building the XML grammar to do > >so, but this is certainly not something that can't be done, and since it > can > >be done, it can be done well. I myself would be very interested in > >participating in such an effort though perhaps it may not yet be the time > to > >add such features to POI since my understanding of its' primary goals is > >that they are somewhat different. I am new to the project so if this has > >been discussed before please forgive my ignorance. > > > > cheers, > > Daniel Honig > > Object Machines, LLC. > > > > > > >
