Microsoft XML

[Peter T. Evensen]

I should have said something on digg.com about #2.  I don't really 
consider #2 a problem.  It has to do with converting decimal to binary.  
Excel stores numbers as numbers, not as text, and there is no way to 
store 12345.12345 in binary as exactly that.

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Alex Shaw wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was thinking how nice it would be if a project of mine could 
> natively read & write excel documents. Should be easy to write a 
> parser in rev, right? Well after reading this article that idea has be 
> thrown into the wastebin.
>
> http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/OOXML-is-defective-by-design.html
>
> regards
> alex