René Peinl wrote:
Hi guys, I'm sorry to bother you with this, but you seem to be the only people reachable outside Microsoft that know about the XLS file format. I've dealt myself a lot with the XML versions and also did some minor enhancements to the OO XSLTs that convert WordML to OO, but now I need some help with the binary version. I'm trying to write a comparison function that compares two versions of a document with each other and should return true if the documents have the same content and false otherwise. I'm using an MD5 hash to do this. The reason is, that I want to eliminate versions of documents in Sharepoint where only metadata has changed. Unfortunately, Sharepoint is so clever that it writes Metadata not only into its own database, but also inside the document itself, if it is an office document type. Therefore I want to strip off the header (and trailer) that contains metadata. For doc files this is quite easy. I just had to remove (or overwrite with zeros) the first 2554 and the last 1520 bytes and compare the files afterwards. Unfortunately this strategy does not work with XLS files. It seems that every sheet inside the file has it's own copy of metadata. Can you give me any advice, how to get rid of the metadata (just for the comparison). Is there any byte sequence I can search for and then overwrite the next x byte with zeros? I would be really thankful for any help. Thanks a lot and
We have a complete description of the OLE2 container file format: http://sc.openoffice.org/compdocfileformat.pdf Regards Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
