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Well you don't have to wait for Office 11 to be able to do this with
Excel. I've been using the Excel XML format with Office XP for over a
year now. In fact the spec is available on MSDN at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnexcl2k2/html/odc_xmlss.asp
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe English [mailto:jenglish@flightlab.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:18 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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> Chris Wilper wrote:
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> > My gut reactions to the Excel XML:
> >
> > [ ... miscellaneous problematic issues deleted ... ]
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> I for one am very pleased at the look of this format.
> Minor nits aside, this will make getting useful data out of
> Excel spreadsheets a whole heck of a lot easier than having
> to parse DIF, the native binary format, using COM, or
> downgrading to CSV. (Not that CSV is hard to parse, but it
> loses almost all of the structural
> information.)
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>
> --Joe English
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> jenglish@flightlab.com
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