To add to Even's suggestion, I think it would be best to improve the xls driver in OGR and integrate that into QGis, rather than develop a standalone QGis plugin. That way you make both better!
Etienne On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Even Rouault <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I'd be much more interested in reading of xls, xlsx, ods etc as >> > tables for joining or generating spatial X,Y layers. > > FYI, Sandro Furieri has created a lightweight FreeXL library that can read XLS > files. It can be integrated with spatialite (through a VirtualXLS module), or > standalone. I've developed in GDAL/OGR 1.9.0 a OGR driver that relies on it. > See > http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_xls.html for the details and limitations. > > Best regards, > > Even > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
