Hi Nick, Good idea. I ran the validator on the els file and it fails. Not sure I understand all the details, though! Here’s the output:
<BFFValidation path="z:\Downloads\file.xls" datetime="08/01/14 16:58:33" result="FAILED"> <ParseStack> <Type builtinType="Docfile" docName="MS-XLS" sectionTitle="Compound File" msdnLink="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b91df1c9-6bfa-4ab4-8218-7bb0d73624ca";> <Info>Built-in type "Docfile": The root storage object of an OLE compound file. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd942138.aspx.</Info> </Type> <Type builtinType="Stream" docName="MS-XLS" sectionTitle="Stream" msdnLink="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f67ac5ed-b0a7-4b2c-9b7a-28933eeaac7e"; streamName="#SummaryInformation" streamOffset="0" hexStreamOffset="0x0"> <Info>Built-in type "Stream": Any stream object for OLE compound files. The entire file contents for other files.</Info> </Type> <Type docName="MS-XLS" sectionTitle="Summary Information Stream (#SummaryInformation)" msdnLink="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d604544b-a580-44ad-99d6-ca20855a9036"; streamName="#SummaryInformation" streamOffset="0" hexStreamOffset="0x0"/> <Type docName="MS-OSHARED" sectionTitle="FilePointer" msdnLink="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd904963(v=office.12).aspx" streamName="#SummaryInformation" streamOffset="44" hexStreamOffset="0x2c"/> <Type docName="MS-OSHARED" sectionTitle="FilePointer" msdnLink="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd904963(v=office.12).aspx" streamName="#SummaryInformation" streamOffset="68" hexStreamOffset="0x44"/> </ParseStack> <LastData><![CDATA[ ]]></LastData> </BFFValidation> Thanks - Chris On 1 Aug 2014, at 15:36, Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org<mailto:apa...@gagravarr.org>> wrote: On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Chris Bamford wrote: > The record it is trying to create is > org.apache.poi.hssf.record.ExtSSTRecord That's normally quite a standard record Can you try running the file format validator against it? See http://poi.apache.org/faq.html#faq-N10152<http://poi.apache.org/faq.html#faq-N10152> for details Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org<mailto:user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org<mailto:user-h...@poi.apache.org> Chris Bamford Senior Developer m: +44 7860 405292 p: +44 207 847 8700 w: www.mimecast.com Address click here: www.mimecast.com/About-us/Contact-us/