Ok, thank you for your answer. I will take a look at the sourceforge project. At the moment it's not really necessary that my application supports 2007 format. So I'll wait until one of the projects is availbale as a late beta or final version.
Greetings from Gütersloh ;-) -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:14:39 +0200 Von: "Christian Krumm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: POI Users List <poi-user@jakarta.apache.org> Betreff: Re: Using POI with Excel 2007 > > > An error like that normally means your file isn't an OLE2 one. Is it > > possible that your file is in csv format, or xml? > > > > Yes, the Excel 2007 format is based upon XML. The format is called > Office OpenXML. > The specification was developed by Microsoft for its Microsoft Office > 2007 product suite and was standardized > by Ecma International as Ecma 376 in December 2006. As far as I know, > it's not a ISO-Standard. > > Office Open XML format uses a ZIP container for packaging XML and other > data files (like OpenDocument). > Microsoft has stated that its primary goal was backward compatibility > with existing documents and full support of the feature set of Microsoft > Office. So the file isn't an OLE2 one and POI can't parse it. You have > to use a XML-Parser instead. > There is also a Project at sourceforge called openxml4j. It is a Java > framework supporting Open Package Convention and Office Open XML File > Format (WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, PresentationML and shared specs > like DrawingML) but unfortunately it is just a Pre-Alpha. > > Sorry for my bad english. I'm not a native speaker. > > Greeting form Oldenburg (Germany) > Christian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi > The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
