• From: "Stephen Green" <stephengreenubl@g...>
• To: "Dave Pawson" <davep@d...>
• Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 08:52:00 +0000

Plus you can automate it all for hundreds of documents using
Ant/Ant Contrib or an Open Office macro. Works very nicely.

On 02/12/2007, Dave Pawson <davep@d...> wrote:
> Stephen Green wrote:
> > An afterthought:
> > I've not tried it but maybe, if you use XSLT to create XML output from
> > the underlying XML of the spreadsheet,
>
>
> I used that method regularly. Spreadsheet entered in MS excel,
> import into Open Office, save. Unzip the xml and process.
> The empty cells weren't a problem. The information is present
> to 'expand' them to make a complete matrix. Expand to a variable
> then process in the normal way.
>
>
> Note it was 'regular' data though.
>
>
> regards
>
> --
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>


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