RE: RE: Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manag

Very small fish, very big pond. There's no chance of upgrading thousands of licenses here in order to solve this problem the elegant way. It's nice to see that Microsoft is catching up with Sun on this issue, though. OpenOffice has been using native XML formats for some time.
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Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     Joe Fawcett <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Wed, 03 May 2006 09:13:48 +0100
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  RE:  Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the hidden stuff

Charles

I realise you're a bit hampered using Excel 2000, later versions do have XML 
exports and the current beta of Office 12 uses XML as the native format.

When I tried a few experiments I was able to remove the commenting without 
any noticeable effect.

--

Joe



>From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Re: RE:  Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage 
>the hidden stuff
>Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:56:49 -0400
>
>My confusion was that I was inserting the xml section into an <xsl:comment> 
>element, rather than a no-namespace-prefix <comment> element. Now that I've 
>cleared up that bit of mental muddle, I'm proceeding along the path 
>suggested by Michael Kay, namely, use a bit of post-processing to swap the 
><comment></comment> for <!-- -->.
>
>Since the whole shebang is orchestrated through ant, it's a trivial matter 
>to insert another task in the processing stream to make the swap.
>
>Thanks for your interest.
>--
>Charles Knell
>cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:     Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent:     Tue, 2 May 2006 12:58:52 -0500
>To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:  Re: RE:  Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the 
>hidden stuff
>
>On 5/2/06, Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 5/2/06, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The direct answer is, "Because I didn't think of it." Having now tried 
>it, I can tell you that it strips away all the XML markup from the 
>document, leaving only the element contents.
> >
> > It creates an comment, just like xsl:element.
>
>That being "It creates a comment, just like xsl:element creates an 
>element."
>
>That might make my point a little clearer.
>
>Jon Gorman