I agree that converting Excel to XML would be better. BUT, it's out of the question for this project. I need to read the real files.
-----Original Message----- From: Johan Kok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: zaterdag 10 januari 2004 12:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Excel Generator I've used chaperon for csv transformations, but are a long way from something usable. - Hopefully chaperon's new version for csv tranformation on cocoon would be usable, and provide a base to work from. Geoff: I would be interested in what you have done thus far. I was also considering taking excell's xml output to convert it for use with forrest as a first cut (i.e. converting it to a doc v12 format), or alternatively strip all the stylesheet information but keep the table,cell,data definitions, and define an xsl tranformation which is a mix of doc v12 and the ms excell formats. Geoff Howard wrote: > Yves Vindevogel wrote: > >> And through XSP ? >> <xsp:logic> Code in Java to open the file with POI and generate >> xml?</xsp:logic> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: donderdag 8 januari 2004 21:40 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Excel Generator >> >> >> On 08.01.2004 18:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> Is it possible to use Excel files as input for a pipeline ? >> >> >> >> No, it isn't. I guess POI itself is able to do it, but it's not >> implemented in the Cocoon components. > > > I've done something like this but in context just needed to put out > a final document (not sax stream) and so used dom and did not > implement it as a Generator. I almost went ahead and did a separate > implementation for Cocoon but started feeling like the various ways one > might want to interpret a series of excel spreadsheets as xml was too > infinitely variable to warrant a quick solution of general use. > Because my parsing requirements were complex, it would not be of > general use even if I were free to release the code (which I'm not). > Still, > if you (or someone else) want to tackle it I could help. > > Geoff > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
