“A few months ago a client asked me to import some XML data into
a spreadsheet. The data was for managers who couldn’t handle raw
XML. I was happy that the company had standardized on the popular
office suite OpenOffice.org (popularly abbreviated ‘OOo’), and I
thought this would make the task trivial. After all, OOo is one of
the most XML-savvy projects of its size. As I discussed in a recent
developerWorks article (see Resources), OOo uses XML for its file
format. Once I set to the task, however, I was surprised to find
that none of the built-in or readily available third-party
importers handled importing generic XML into the spreadsheet
component, OOo Calc…”
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