Is the data really tabular?

Post #138,364 by ben_tilly 1/28/04 3:03:00 PM Reply	Is the data really tabular? If you are looking for one report to one file, but the reports have different number of columns in different sections, then CSV can't handle it. Excel can by having multiple sheets, but you'll have to think about the problem a little. I have no idea whether you can write an XML file that Excel will load into multiple sheets. (Easiest way to find out, get Excel and try to dump a file with multiple sheets into XML format. Then study what it dumped.) As for XML in the middle, that choice doesn't make much sense to me. Do you have any ideas why your boss is insisting on that? Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #138,368 by deSitter 1/28/04 3:07:31 PM Reply	Re: Is the data really tabular? Use your imagination. It's a fad, and he's a boss. It's arbitrary. Science Diet for PHBs. -drl
Post #138,526 by ben_tilly 1/29/04 10:48:09 AM Reply	No harm in being generous While that is likely, it is always possible that there is something that the boss thinks of as a real reason. For instance the boss knows that another project coming down the pipeline involves lots of XML, or the person who is slated to take over maintainance may have that skillset. No harm in asking. Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]

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