Hi Nick:

  I had been looking into openxml4j which is a great idea, the problem is
that I can not wait that long to support Excel 2007, according to their road
map:
http://www.openxml4j.org/Documentation/Overview.html
the excel support won't be there until 2008.
  Thanks for your help.

Regards

Nick Burch wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, bastian wrote:
>>  I have been using POI to import Excel files for long, I have my own
>> library built on top of POI and now I need to import Excel 2007 Files. I
>> couldn't find a better place than this one to ask this question and
>> since the original post is good I didn't want to open a new one.
>
> You could try openxml4j (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml4j/), but
> I don't think they're quite at the stage of doing read/write of excel yet
> (I think they're still on the container format stage).
>
> The guys behind it are really friendly though, and they seem keen on the
> idea of POI and openxml4j developing a common excel api (probably much
> like the poi usermodel), so it's easier for people to switch between the
> libraries. They're hoping to start talking to us about that once they've
> got their next beta out.
>
>
> As for POI, I don't know of any of the developers having plans to
> implement ooxml support to it. As Andy said last week (might've been on
> -dev), if someone wants to add the support to poi, we will give them help.
> If an existing ooxml java project wants to join us, we'll give it serious
> thought.
>
> Nick
>
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