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Hi, My question is of the general architectural type, similar to the one about Quark yesterday. I am investigating populating an Excel 97 spreadsheet with an XSLT transformation of existing XML data. I would like to produce the spreadsheet file as an enhancement to an existing batch process on a (DONS ASBESTOS SUIT) Unix server (ASBESTOS SUIT OFF). Similar to the answers about Quark, I suspect that an XSL solution that directly produces a pretty, formatted spreadsheet will be really ugly if not impossible under Unix. Instead will I have to implement a three step process? (1) call an XSL script to transform my input XML into an output document (say a CSV text file) that contains the desired data. (2) FTP the output document to my NT server (3) write VBScript to import the output document into the pretty Excel spreadsheet. Does anyone have any comment on the appropriateness of the above approach? Are there any better suggestions? BTW: I had a look at the Microsoft site at the Office XP product http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnnews/2001/may/Excel/Excel.asp and it looks as though this version of Excel separates data from presentation. Is this true? If so then I could choose to do the XSLT processing on Unix to produce an XML document. My users are not likely to be on this version of Excel for a long time, so it does not appear that I can take advantage of this technology any time soon. Thanks, James MacEwan Software Developer Investors Group Inc. mailto:James.MacEwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx v: (204) 956-8515 f: (204) 943-3540 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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