On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 22:02 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > On 5/23/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dusty Wilson wrote in Article > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > I have data that was exported from MySQL > > Query Browser to what appears > > > to be an OpenXML-formatted Excel document. I can't seem to get > > > OpenOffice.org to open it. Do you guys know how to go about opening > > > this document? > > > > Might try saving it in the traditional Excel format and see if OpenOffice > > can open that. Contrary to the name, OpenXML is not open. Nobody but > > Microsoft supports it, and only in recent versions of MS Office. > > The real problem is that I have files already stored in this > non-binary format and I can't open them. I didn't see a way to export > from MySQL Query Browser to Excel in any other format, but I could be > wrong. But really, that's not the issue. I just wanted to be able to > open these (or any other) files that are formatted in this format. > > Regarding OpenXML's openness, it seems like it should be easier for us > to develop for since we don't (or shouldn't at least!) have to > reverse-engineer it.
6000+ single spaced pages of specifications, plus an additional 3000+ pages of "external reference" and in any case, it does binary encapsulation for "legacy" excel formats. > I'm hoping someone is working to get code into upstream OOo so we can > start reading those files. I refuse to install Novell's "special" > version of OOo, so unless there is a nice way to go about reading > these files, I'll just do without. Then you are out of luck. I am sure there is someone somewhere doing it. In all reality though, it'll probably be YEARS before it'll show up. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
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