Re: question about Gnumeric XML format

[David Stanaway <david stanaway net>]

Try renaming the file to whatever.gnumeric.gz

It is an xml file compressed with gzip.

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 20:00 +0200, Henry Proudhon wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm now converted to Gnumeric, thanks for the good work.
> I've a maybe stupid question.
>
> I usually write my programs in Java. Thus I've started to use JWorkBook 
> (from jfree.org) to export some Gnumeric spreadSheets and it work very well.
> JWorkBook produce pure XML files which I understand as the Gnumeric 
> default format. The problem I have is when I open such a file with 
> Gnumeric and re-save it, it is then a binary file and I cannot open it 
> anymore with an XML viewer.
> I wanted to add some features to JWorkBook to fit my needs and it makes 
> it difficult cause I do not know so much about the gnumeric format (so far).
>
> Any advice or pointer will be appreciated, thanks
>
> --Henry
>
> -- 
>
> Henry Proudhon
> Postdoc Fellow
> Materials Engineering
> The University of British Columbia
> 309-3650 Stores Road
> V6T-1Z4 Vancouver B.C. (Canada)