RE: [xsl] Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the hidden stuff

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles

I realise you're a bit hampered using Excel 2000, later versions do have XML 
exports and the current beta of Office 12 uses XML as the native format.

When I tried a few experiments I was able to remove the commenting without 
any noticeable effect.

--

Joe



> From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
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> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Re: RE: [xsl] Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage 
> the hidden stuff
> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:56:49 -0400
>
> My confusion was that I was inserting the xml section into an <xsl:comment> 
> element, rather than a no-namespace-prefix <comment> element. Now that I've 
> cleared up that bit of mental muddle, I'm proceeding along the path 
> suggested by Michael Kay, namely, use a bit of post-processing to swap the 
> <comment></comment> for &lt;!-- --&gt;.
>
> Since the whole shebang is orchestrated through ant, it's a trivial matter 
> to insert another task in the processing stream to make the swap.
>
> Thanks for your interest.
> --
> Charles Knell
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Tue, 2 May 2006 12:58:52 -0500
> To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Re: RE: [xsl] Producing Excel 2000 htm files: how do I manage the 
> hidden stuff
>
> On 5/2/06, Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 5/2/06, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The direct answer is, "Because I didn't think of it." Having now tried 
> it, I can tell you that it strips away all the XML markup from the 
> document, leaving only the element contents.
> >
> > It creates an comment, just like xsl:element.
>
> That being "It creates a comment, just like xsl:element creates an 
> element."
>
> That might make my point a little clearer.
>
> Jon Gorman