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== XML/YML/CSV support == | |||
* XML: advantages: easier to handle from external programs, they can transform the data | |||
* YML: advantages: easy to read and write for manual adjustments | |||
* CSV: advantages: edit long lists; problems: Excel reformats and may cut off account codes etc | |||
== Excel file support == | == Excel file support == | ||
Revision as of 09:10, 9 October 2009
Data liberation
- see also Google's effort: http://www.dataliberation.org/
The idea is that it should be easy to get data in and out of OpenPetra.org
XML/YML/CSV support
- XML: advantages: easier to handle from external programs, they can transform the data
- YML: advantages: easy to read and write for manual adjustments
- CSV: advantages: edit long lists; problems: Excel reformats and may cut off account codes etc
Excel file support
- see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151005/create-excel-xls-and-xlsx-file-from-c
- see http://www.leniel.net/2009/07/creating-excel-spreadsheets-xls-xlsx-c.html
- see http://npoi.codeplex.com/ "This project is the .NET version of POI Java project at http://poi.apache.org/. POI is an open source project which can help you read/write xls, doc, ppt files. It has a wide application."
- see http://excelpackage.codeplex.com/ "ExcelPackage provides server-side generation of Excel 2007 spreadsheets.
It is a set of classes and wrappers around the .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API and the new Office Open XML file format."