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I have an excel spreadsheet which has one worksheet. The work sheet has 50 columns and 1000+ rows. And I want to transform the data inside the excel spreadsheet into another custom format.
Is it possible to use xml+xslt to transform the data inside the excel worksheet into another format – as I’ve recently read that excel data is xml under the hood?
My programming language of choice is C# (incase that is required)
Thank you
in theory yes but I think this could be rather complex…
Another approach is to use OpenXML SDK from MS – see http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5124
For some starting points
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456488.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17985
http://openxmldeveloper.org/blog/b/openxmldeveloper/archive/2009/06/02/4730.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/ExcelOpenXMLSDK.aspx
IF you need more (like rendering to high-quality PDF etc.) then there are several 3rd-party libraries available (like Flexcel, Aspose.Cells, SpreadsheetGear…).