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2011-12-25

Producing ODF spreadsheets from your Web services

"Whenever a Web page or service provides data, users particularly appreciate getting it in spreadsheet format or at least in a format they can easily load into a spreadsheet. This article shows how to produce Open Document Format (ODF) spreadsheet files (or, ODS) either by directly creating them byte by byte (which requires a study of the inner structure of ODS files), or through specific libraries that simplify the work. You also get a glance into producing CSV files—not just because they are a sort of "lowest common denominator" interchange format, but because you can convert them automatically into ODS files."

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-odf/index.html?ca=dgr-twtrODF-Spreadsdth-WD/r:t

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