Re: Web Query

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 08:52:54AM +0800, Edward Metcalfe wrote:
> New to the list.  One thing that Gnumeric hasn't got which Open Office 
> and Excel has is a Web query.  Basically a url is put into a dialog box 
> which goes and fetches the data from the web and dumps it into a 
> worksheet.  The URL is stored so the data can be easily updated.
>
> Since there can be a script at the end of the url this is much more 
> flexible than ,IMHO, ODBC.

This feature is actually fairly low hanging fruit at this point.
The gnome enabled build has access network access, and the html
parser is quite robust.  I suspect this will go in during the 1.5
development cycle.