Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xsl] Extracting a XLSX directly using XSLT 3 and Saxon HE

["Lizzi, Vincent vincent.lizzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These might be helpful if even just as examples of using XSLT and XQuery to
read or create xlsx files:

https://github.com/eliudmeza/OOXML-Library-XQuery-BaseXdb

https://github.com/vincentml/xsl-excel-engine

> doc('jar:file:/C:/SomePath/SomeDir/excel-sheet1.xlsx!/xl/workbook.xml')

That is a useful trick! It appears to be specific to Saxon.

Thanks,
Vincent

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Vincent M. Lizzi
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From: Gayanthika Udeshani gudeshani@xxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xsl] Extracting a XLSX directly using XSLT 3 and
Saxon HE

to get the URIs of (some or all?) contained files, it appears, and then
you can read the XML files with the doc function e.g.

doc('jar:file:/C:/SomePath/SomeDir/excel-sheet1.xlsx!/xl/workbook.xml')

This works like magic without any additional configuration changes with the
Saxon PE version 10.  You can access the inner xml files of an Excel file
without extracting it!

Thanks again for your help!

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 1:39 AM Martin Honnen
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On 06.07.2022 18:39, Gayanthika Udeshani
gudeshani@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gudeshani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I did some research and I couldn't find whether there is any XSLT 3
> feature in the Saxon HE, which allows extracting the xlsx (Excel file)
> directly. I found some solutions using Saxon EE, want to know whether
> I have missed something which we can apply using the HE.
>
On closer look, it seems even Saxon HE can treat an xlsx file as a zip
archive if you pass in the right configuration property (example worked
for me with Windows Powershell on the command line for Saxon HE 11 and 10)

   --zipUriPattern:'.*\.xlsx'

 From there you can use e.g.

   uri-collection('excel-sheet1.xlsx')

to get the URIs of (some or all?) contained files, it appears, and then
you can read the XML files with the doc function e.g.

doc('jar:file:/C:/SomePath/SomeDir/excel-sheet1.xlsx!/xl/workbook.xml')

But as Mike said, the whole structure is rather complicated, with all
the references across various files you either need to know your way
around Spreadsheet ML or perhaps already have a stylesheet by someone
that learned to process such a structure to extract/transform the
spreadsheet data.

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