Re: wishlist: file export feature

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 02:09:09PM -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
>
> > Jody Goldberg wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 97) Have a look at MS Excel's magic html (why have 2 bogus
> > >   non-standard formats) ?
> > Why have any invalid html ?
>
> Serializing a spreadsheet into html will require a superset of html.
> Whether the result is valid or invalid is a side issue, the format
> will still be a more than just stock html.  We can shoe horn the
> extra data in ways that are considered 'valid' or ways that are just
> effectively valid, that choice can be discused after the release.  My
> first reaction would be to look at MS Excel's html format, and to
> use that unless there is a very good reason not to, even if it is
> NOT valid html.  Defining a new file format is not a step Gnumeric
> should take lightly.  Compatibility with existing toolsets is very
> important at this stage of Gnumeric development.

I am probably missing the point completely, but: if we want to `extend' 
html why don't we just use xml, hey but we are doing that already....?? 
Perhaps what is really meant is to write a DTD to display gnumeric xml??

Andreas

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