Re: [Gretl-devel] File formats (was: Excel 2003 xls format)
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
I found someone who's got Office 2003 and I did an experiment. I
created a file containing
x y
1 3.2
2 3.2
3 4.1
4 4.1
and saved it in Office2003 format. Both CVS gretl and gnumeric
1.6.3 read it perfectly, so it must be a subtler issue.
OpenOffice.org has an option to save in "Microsoft Excel 2003
XML". I suppose _that_ is the format we can't read (we only
support BIFF-type xls files).
It'd be very useful if someone could post an example file which
gretl can't open.
Yes, it would be nice to know if it's only XML files generated by
Excel 2003 that we can't read.
Supporting XML files of any sort is not difficult provided the
spec is available (and is followed!). But it can be quite
time-consuming to code.
Allin.