https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226687(v=office.11).aspx
Pre-ooxml spreadsheetML? 'file' and DROID both identify this as regular xml. I'll see if I can dig up some other files. -----Original Message----- From: Javen O'Neal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 11:43 AM To: POI Users List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: POI not parsing these XLS file Interesting. Xls extension identified as application/xml. POI does not support the Workbook XML format. OOXML is different. On Apr 21, 2016 8:37 AM, "Andrew Munn" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using poi 3.15 > > I can not get POI to parse these XLS files being generated by > Bloomberg into something useful. I can use Tika to parse them into > one long line of HTML but then there are no cell breaks or line breaks. > > http://www.topazdevelopment.com/tmp/poi/2010-cal-eu.xls > > Tika indentifies as: > > Content-Length: 84473 > Content-Type: application/xml > X-Parsed-By: org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser > X-Parsed-By: org.apache.tika.parser.xml.DcXMLParser > X-TIKA:digest:MD5: 132c9c6bb186b7dea86f7da08f18c672 > X-TIKA:digest:SHA256: > badef53ab482d611d4345323c625ac048d76dd3af23a69a98ed86cbe8bf53304 > resourceName: 2010-cal-eu.xls > > if I do: > > org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook workbook = > WorkbookFactory.create(myFile); > > I get: > > org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException: Your > InputStream was neither an OLE2 stream, nor an OOXML stream > > I can open these files in Excel and LibreOffice. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks! > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
