Re: gnumeric XML doesn't show result of formula

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 21:28 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > The implication of your point of view seems to be: gnumeric XML is 
> > strictly a private format -- if you're a third party and want to 
> > make use of files saved in this format, you're SOL.
>
> Why would you be SOL? The file contains all data in an easily readable
> and completely documented format. Since the formulas are included any
> results are unnecessary. Yes, some programs may prefer not to need to
> recalculate the results, but they should do that even when the results
> are included since there is no guarantee that the result matches the
> formula.

I think we're pretty much at the end of this topic, but what I 
meant was that, as a third party reading gnumeric XML, you're SOL 
is you don't have a functional replacement for the Gnumeric 
calculation engine at hand.  Gretl, for example, has plenty of 
calculating power, but it's not a spreadsheet and is not geared to 
Excel/Gnumeric function syntax. It's therefore nice to be able to 
pick up formula results from XLS or ODS.  

Allin Cottrell