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RE: RE: [xsl] Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the hidden stuff

2006-05-03 03:27:53
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.
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     Joe Fawcett <joefawcett(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
Sent:     Wed, 03 May 2006 09:13:48 +0100
To:       xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject:  RE: [xsl] 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(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com
Reply-To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: Re: RE: [xsl] 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(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     Jon Gorman <jonathan(_dot_)gorman(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Sent:     Tue, 2 May 2006 12:58:52 -0500
To:       xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject:  Re: RE: [xsl] Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the 
hidden stuff

On 5/2/06, Jon Gorman <jonathan(_dot_)gorman(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
On 5/2/06, cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com <cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com> 
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

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