Re: Spreadsheet translation

[Markus Mützel]

Am 31. Januar 2020 um 10:31 Uhr schrieb "Philip Nienhuis":
> Well, OCT can (I wrote the code for it) but .xlsx is a very very
> complicated spreadsheet format (basically it's a compressed nested
> directory tree full of XML files), and we read it using regular
> expressions while XML had better be read using XML parsers and such.
> In fact, all the Java based spreadsheet I/O classes are based on XML
> parsers/validators etc. But regexps are much faster than XML (although I
> often think OTOH they're much more fragile).

This legendary stackoverflow answer comes to mind ;-)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

Markus