[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 2/7/2018 6:48 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you saying that the XML does is not well formed XML or that it does
>>> not validate against the schemas??
>> 
>> I am saying that it matters what order the XML fields are in, for instance.
>> _Reading_ an XLSX file is easy because it is good XML.  The thing is, just
>> because you write a good XML file doesn't mean Excel will read it.
>
>Is that because:
>A) the XSL defines an order of elements and they were written in wrong
>    order?
>B) the XSL specify that elements can be in any order but Excel will only
>    read them in a certain order

I'm not sure what you're asking here.  XLSX files are XML files, but they
are a very very specific XML format.  There have to be specific individual
files in individual orders with elements in individual orders and with 
specific names, and unless everything is very exact it won't work.  Files
that worked with the previous Excel versions don't work with the current
version.

The actual format is not very well defined, unlike with XLS files.  There
is a design document but it's pretty vague.
--scott

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