Re: Reading/ Writing GNU XML format

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Steve Swann wrote:

> Once I receive the file at the Webserver I intend to read the 
> XML file and upload the spreadsheet contents to a database. I 
> piloted this approach and all seemed to go very well until I 
> discovered that formula are represented in the cell element 
> value as only a formula descriptor . The problem with that is 
> that I cannot easily determine the value of the cell...

See the recent discussion of this point that started with a 
posting by John Machin:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gnumeric-list gnome org/msg01772.html

Some of us would like to see formula results written into in 
gnumeric files but the developers don't like this idea.

Allin Cottrell