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Re: standard for calculation tables

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:28:26 +0100

On 09/10/2012 20:30, bryan rasmussen wrote:
> So it should have enough description in it that I can generate a
> tabular view - such as in the fragment above of the html table, but
> also enough that I could generate a form for the simple calculations
> such a table represents.

A tabular view capable of expressing calculations sounds an awful lot 
like a spreadsheet.

The Office Open XML (Word) and ODF (Open/Libre Office) XML formats each 
in their different ways encode spreadsheets and might (or might not:-) 
be worth a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument


David

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