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Asked: 2026-05-23T22:17:17+00:00

In the past we have been exporting files as CSV’s and the default reader

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In the past we have been exporting files as CSV’s and the default reader has been Excel. Recently, the company introduced iPad. iPad treats CSV’s quite differently (different escape character sequences) than Excel.

Is there a format which works with both iPad readers and Excel? I have Apache FOP and XALAN in place, but the translations I’ve built are for HTML and PDF. For business reasons, I need to maintain Excel compatibility.

How can I achieve Excel and iPad compatibility without having to detect the browser and execute two different implementations?

Notes
iPad can be read only, prefer editable.
iPad has QuickOffice installed.
Excel format has to be user editable.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Due to the fact that I need this to run not only in Quickoffice, but in the CSV reader for the web page itself I had to build in a workaround.

    I chose to detect the browser and escape the reserved characters accordingly. This is not an ideal solution, but it works and its the only reliable solution I have been able to come across that works in Excel, Quickoffice and the native Safari CSV reader.

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