Re: reading (parsing) CSV (or Excel) data
Re: reading (parsing) CSV (or Excel) data
- Subject: Re: reading (parsing) CSV (or Excel) data
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:34:58 -0700
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, DKJ <email@hidden> wrote:
> I've just been using NSXMLParser for the first time. Can Excel files be
> saved in XML format? If so, would NSXMLParser be a possible solution here?
XML isn't a format, per se. It's a structured markup language. The
actual layout of the data (the schema) is undefined. I might do this:
<spreadsheet>
<cell id="A1">123</cell>
</spreadsheet>
While someone else might do this:
<spreadsheet>
<row index="1">
<number column="A">123</number>
</row>
</spreadsheet>
Both of these are XML, but in completely different schemata. So "XML
format" is a bit nonsensical.
The native file format of Excel 2007 and 2008 is indeed an XML-based
format, and it's even a standard. It's also so terribly complex that
there is as of yet no 100%-compliant editor of this format.
--Kyle Sluder
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