I'm afraid you're correct on the formulas.

But, back in the days, when I was programming in Visual Basic, I wrote a
"script calculator".  That calculator loaded a simple text script that
contained Visual Basic code.  It then executed the code, and showed the
result.  I had to use a DLL for that, a scripting dll that came from
Internet Explorer, and that was using a Java function, called evaluate.
With evaluate, I was able to calculate things that were in pure string
format.  Eg.  "a=1 ; b=2; c = a + b;" -> evaluate "c" would have given me
"3" and not "a + b".

I have a small background in Java, but can't this be used ??

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: vrijdag 9 januari 2004 0:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excel Generator


On 08.01.2004 22:53, Yves Vindevogel wrote:
> What if we start from this ??
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/22/poi.html
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/16/poi_excel.html

Why not, we can later go on to output Gnumeric file format. A start is
always important.

> To be honest, I do not require the formulas in the Excel file.

AFAIK only the formulas are stored in the file, not their result.

> I need the results of the cells.
>
> And output like:
> <Workbook file="AZERTY">
> <Sheet name="QSDFGH">
> <A><A1>MyName</A1><A2>Something Else</A2></A>
> <B><B1>....
> </Sheet>
> </Workbook>
>
> I'm willing to contribute on it, and I have a developer at hands who can
> spend time at it.  I willing to give him 3 days (tomorrow friday and two
> days in his weekend off ;-))  to produce something ....

What a poor guy! ;-)

Joerg


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