Re: SpreadsheetML

Hey Olivier: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:52:14PM +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > > Because you're going to provide an answer to the need of generating > Excel-compatible content, I suppose that outputing SpreadsheetML could be > part of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer itself. An option could set wether to use > the binary or new XML format. Don't you think ? Doing that would make things really hard to maintain. > This way people who already use Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer would only need to > set an option, and leave the rest of their code as it is. My goal is to make the only thing they need to change are the class names. > By the way, while you're at it, I must confess that a very bad limitation > of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is that it needs to load all of the data into > memory before rendering. ... > With this XML format I suppose that you could easily implement some sort of > buffered streaming, to avoid such memory eating. Streaming, can't do due to the format needs. Writing to a temp file first, perhaps, but I'm not sure it's doable due to the order things need to happen. Will try. Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409