Word and Excel

[coder]

Google displays Word and Excel online on their web pages. Does anyone know
how they do that?

 

[André Gillibert]

Google displays Word and Excel online on their web pages. Does anyone
know

I guess you are referint to MS Word documents and MS Excel stylesheets.

how they do that?

They've a conversion software, converting from one of the Microsoft's
format to HTML.
This requires:
1) A parser for the Microsoft format.
2) A conversion routine that dumps an HTML DOM (this is the tricky part).
3) An HTML output.

MS Excel stylesheets can easily be converted to HTML tables (but, of
course, macros and stylesheets automatic calculus cannot be converted).
For MS Word documents, that's more tricky. It cannot produce good semantic
HTML.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Google displays Word and Excel online on their web pages. Does anyone
know how they do that?

I don't know how *they* do it, but I know how *I* do it. wvHTML for Word,
and xls2csv for Excel.

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