[Hidden-tech] Save Web page as Excel?

[William Summers]

There are perl modules that let you write directly to an excel format.
(Where would the world be without perl?) Not something I've worked with,
but it seems like it should work.

Check out these links and see if they help. There were many more on hits
on google, if you need to dig deeper.


http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl/WriteExcel.html

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pexcel/
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> Combing a few suggestions - you might want check out the 'web query'
> feature of Excel,
>
> It is basically a direct import of a URL - you would need to make a page
> that produced csv from the xml,
> and then experiment with how best to use the feature, I've not used it
> for a few years - I know it can read html and strip
> some of the formating out - it might even read XML directly now.
>
> Rich R.
>
> Jean Graef wrote:
>>
>> We have a Web application that displays dynamic data from a database.
>> I would like to have an "Export to XML"  button or link on pages that
>> list database data in table rows and columns. The Web pages are in XML
>> format (i.e. sample_page.xsl).
>>
>> What's the easiest way to get my "export to Excel" function to work in
>> Internet Explorer or Safari?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jean
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Jean Graef
>> The Montague Institute
>> www.montague.com <http://www.montague.com>
>> -----------------------------------------------
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