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Is POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format?
Hi
Is APACHE POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format? or when will the plan for
supporting XLSB.
Regards
Naveen
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Re: Is POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format?
Posted by Nick Burch <ni...@torchbox.com>.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, navjamsster wrote:
> Is APACHE POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format? or when will the plan
> for supporting XLSB.
I don't think we're likely to support it explicitly, though you might find
that the existing HSSF code works just fine with it
Most people are either sticking with .xls, or moving to .xlsx, so there's
no developer drive to support it
If you do happen to find a couple of little niggles with HSSF and .xlsb,
and would like to contribute patches to allow HSSF to work with both .xls
and .xlsb, we'd be delighted to accept them
Nick
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Re: Is POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format?
Posted by David Fisher <df...@jmlafferty.com>.
Current POI developers are interested in other areas - like docx and
pptx.
If you would like to develop support for xlsb, please join the dev-
list, if you ask questions you will get help.
There is a common access model being developed for XSSF (xlsx, xlsm)
and HSSF (xls) if you wanted to undertake the heavy lifting I am sure
that we would gladly consider accepting contributions after POI-3.5-
FINAL is released.
See these web pages -
http://poi.apache.org/howtobuild.html
http://apache.org/licenses/
http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
Questions? Developers come over to the dev list.
Regards,
Dave
On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Daniel Noll wrote:
> Dave Fisher wrote:
>> Hi -
>> No, and no plans.
>> It will support XLSX (XSSF) and XLS (HSSF). It looks like
>> openoffice.org is taking a similar approach and is focused on
>> importing the XLSX format into their "Calc" document.
>> If you want XLSB you'll need to have Excel convert an XLSX or XLS
>> to that format and back.
>
> This is a bit of a shame for people who are using POI to avoid using
> Office automation though. Office automation is extremely
> inefficient and crash-prone compared to POI's implementation for the
> same formats. :-(
>
> Daniel
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Re: Is POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format?
Posted by Daniel Noll <da...@nuix.com>.
Dave Fisher wrote:
> Hi -
>
> No, and no plans.
>
> It will support XLSX (XSSF) and XLS (HSSF). It looks like openoffice.org
> is taking a similar approach and is focused on importing the XLSX format
> into their "Calc" document.
>
> If you want XLSB you'll need to have Excel convert an XLSX or XLS to
> that format and back.
This is a bit of a shame for people who are using POI to avoid using
Office automation though. Office automation is extremely inefficient
and crash-prone compared to POI's implementation for the same formats. :-(
Daniel
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Re: Is POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format?
Posted by Dave Fisher <da...@jmlafferty.com>.
Hi -
No, and no plans.
It will support XLSX (XSSF) and XLS (HSSF). It looks like
openoffice.org is taking a similar approach and is focused on
importing the XLSX format into their "Calc" document.
If you want XLSB you'll need to have Excel convert an XLSX or XLS to
that format and back.
A quick google shows that some find XLSB to be CPU intensive vs. XML,
but more space efficient.
http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/05/21/the-new-excel-2007-file-format/
Regards,
Dave
On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:36 AM, navjamsster wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Is APACHE POI 3.5 support Microsoft XLSB format? or when will the
> plan for
> supporting XLSB.
>
> Regards
> Naveen
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