gnumeric file format & formulas

[Josep Monés i Teixidor <jmones puntbarra com>]

Hi,

I'm working on a set of GNU Octave functions to import and export data 
from gnumeric files and I'd like to make a suggestion:

When parsing the file I've noticed that the current result value is not 
included for formula cells. This (which MS Excel XML file format does) 
would be very convenient for importing data outside a spreadsheet, since 
calculating formulas would really be a non-sense.

BTW, could I do that using a bonobo interface, does that exist? Or 
perhaps a library? I think that just parsing the xml file is better 
because it will work everywhere even if gnumeric is not installed 
(although everybody should ;) ), but perhaps it could be worth if we had 
formula results.

TIA,

Josep