>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:26:04 0100 =?iso-8859-1?B?TG/vYyBMZWbodnJl?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.
There are sample XLS files in the repository: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-poi/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/ So far as I know these are all US/UK/AU version creations. (Note that all English offshoot cultures have roughly the same version of Excel from what I've read -- basically if the country in question speaks English and was once part of the British Empire, its got the same version -- this is essentially the version the Excel 97 Dev kit primarily focuses on though it mentions some i18n concerns). Explain what you mean by "write process" HSSF is organized into 4 seperate parts (in essence) 1. usermodel. This is to HSSF what DOM is to XML. 2. eventapi. This is to HSSF what SAX is to XML 3. records. These are the low level binary structures 4. model. These are the *grammar* for the records, these pull together the low level binary structures into something meaningful (think of the records as words and the model as the grammar) the event API uses only the records and is *read only*. The usermodel uses the model and to a lesser extent the records to map to high level structures. when you say "write process"? I'm not sure what you're asking, can you be more specific?
