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Status of XLRD reading .xlsx (Excel 2007)
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On 25/06/2009 11:16 AM, Daniel Burke wrote:
> xlsx files are zip archives with xml files in them, you can read them
> with your favorite DOM parser if you're impatient.
Yes, dead easy, might want to have a quick flick through the docs though:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
BTW, you need 1st edition (2006) for Excel 2007, not 2nd edition (2008)