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Re: [xsl] XPath Against OpenXML and OpenOffice Spreadsheets?

From: "Vyacheslav Sedov" <vyacheslav.sedov@--------->
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Date: 6/4/2008 9:51:00 AM
Surely it fully depend on current task requirements.

Also i forgot to remind that strings in OOXML spreadsheets can be
"packed" into "shared strings" file. Very annoying feature.

Regards,
Slav.

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> XQuery is better for this task - you can try eXist
>> (http://exist.sourceforge.net/) for data retrieving.
>>
>
> I would question that. In the work I have done with XML exported from MSWord
> and Excel, I needed to make extensive use of XSLT 2.0 grouping facilities,
> which have no direct equivalent in XQuery - the only way to achieve the same
> effect in XQuery requires heavy use of recursive functions, which many users
> find difficult to master.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/


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