Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-poi-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 66593 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2010 14:18:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 27 Aug 2010 14:18:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 27189 invoked by uid 500); 27 Aug 2010 14:18:56 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-poi-user-archive@poi.apache.org Received: (qmail 27059 invoked by uid 500); 27 Aug 2010 14:18:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@poi.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "POI Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list user@poi.apache.org Received: (qmail 27047 invoked by uid 99); 27 Aug 2010 14:18:54 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:18:54 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of nick.burch@alfresco.com designates 88.151.129.23 as permitted sender) Received: from [88.151.129.23] (HELO mx-out-manc3.simplymailsolutions.com) (88.151.129.23) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:18:45 +0000 Received: from zimbra.alfresco.com ([10.2.10.4]) by mx-out-manc3.simplymailsolutions.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o7REIPwu014082 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:18:25 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.alfresco.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEB1414025 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:18:25 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unx-d-manc4.tc.ifeltd.com Received: from zimbra.alfresco.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.alfresco.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JeEUqb2ULhmi for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:18:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from urchin.earth.li (urchin.earth.li [212.13.204.73]) (Authenticated sender: nick.burch@alfresco.com) by zimbra.alfresco.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC159414017 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:18:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:18:24 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Burch X-X-Sender: nick@urchin.earth.li To: POI Users List Subject: Re: I need to read only (not write) large xls and xlsx files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <09AE251D3609314DB3771B9C2DCFE5690D4D5A6939@MX01A.corp.emc.com> <09AE251D3609314DB3771B9C2DCFE5690D4D5A6A31@MX01A.corp.emc.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Brian Trezise wrote: > Is there anything similar for writing of large .xls files as well? Alas not. The biff8 file format has loads of back-and-forth references between different records. This makes at almost impossible to do a streaming write, because you need to know about things later in the file to write earlier bits... Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@poi.apache.org