Re: How to build a program that can read the content of a very simple MS Excel file?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:27:53PM +0700, Huge Mountain wrote:
> 
> I just care about BIFF8/8X. Is this all streams that exist in BIFF8, and no
> more stream used?

Workbook is the primary content of the spreadsheet.  There are other
streams that are possible.

Document metadata
    <05H>SummaryInformation,
    <05H>DocumentSummaryInformation

There are also streams associated with VBA, and cached data for
pivot tables.

> Is length of Workbook stream unlimited and
> the usual value, 4096 bytes, just a min length of Workbook stream?
Yes.  Although OLE2 itself has a 32bit limits on file sizes.