- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:05:25 +0100
- To: "'Dave Peterson'" <davep@iit.edu>, "'Anand Khandewale'" <anand.khandewale@gmail.com>, <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
> Anand: I When you dump your spreadsheet in XML format, you > don't have much control of what elements are present. I > suggest you just expect Excel to put those inappropriate > (from your perspective) elements, and then run that XML > document through an XSLT processor to eliminate or modify the result. > The XSLT program shouldn't be too complicated, once you get > familiar with XSLT. That may be a little optimistic. The XML output from Microsoft Office applications is notoriously convoluted, and I've done consultancy for several projects that needed access to more XSLT experience than they could find in-house in order to tackle the challenge. However, it's certainly doable. But we're way off-topic from XML Schema here. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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