[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

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In article <p5gh1v$9gl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>On 2/7/2018 10:05 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> =?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.
>
>????
>
>There are schema definitions for it. Very well defined. Either elements
>has to be in a specific order or they can be in any order. The XSD
>file(s) specify that.

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