[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: Excel sheet

• To: Michael Champion <michael.champion@h...>
• Subject: Re: Excel sheet
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:15:43 -0500
• Cc: SMir@W..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <BAY114-W1AA3483A56190105E7C81991F0@p...>
• References: <BAY114-W1AA3483A56190105E7C81991F0@p...>
• User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716)

Michael Champion wrote:

> The Office 2003 version of Excel has extensive XML capabilities -- you 
> can save spreadsheets in a default XML schema and load custom XML 
> schema-defined XML into Excel.  See
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835298
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx
>
> and you might find the book 
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/officexml/ helpful.
>
>  
>
> For pre-2003 versions of Excel, see 
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/q-and-a.html
>

Hi Mike - suppose I want to access an Excel spreadsheet as XML in a 
program, without loading Excel. Is there an API I could use for this? An 
API that would let me save an Excel spreadsheet as XML would be all I need.

Jonathan

-- 
Read my Blog: http://blogs.datadirect.com/jonathan_robie/
Learn XQuery: http://media.datadirect.com/download/docs/ddxquery/tutorial_query.html
Learn XQJ (the JDBC for XQuery): http://www.datadirect.com/developer/xquery/topics/xqj_tutorial/
Get DataDirect XQuery: http://www.datadirect.com/products/xquery/

• References:
  • RE: Excel sheet
    • From: "Michael Champion" <michael.champion@h...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Reference to an ENTITY
• Next by Date: RE: Re: Excel sheet
• Previous by thread: RE: Excel sheet
• Next by thread: RE: Re: Excel sheet
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread