Re: [hobbit] Report in Excel format

[Asif Iqbal <iqbala-hobbit (at) qwestip.net>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:20:54AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Hi Asif,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:42:47PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to add a feature to be able to create report in Excel
> > format? My director was wondering if that is possible.
> 
> Reporting in native Excel format is out of the question - it's way too
> complicated and proprietary a format.
> 
> I've had some requests for generating reports in CSV (comma-separated
> values) format. That is one option; a more flexible solution would be
> to export the report data in an XML format - since everybody seems to


Any hint on how to generate the report in XML OR CSV format? 


> be adopting XML as a universal data exchange format, I think that
> would make the most sense.

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