Archive for October, 2013

python libxml2: save XML as HTML

Thursday, October 31st, 2013

HTML is the main output format for XML transformations. Every XSLT-processor, including libxslt/libxml2, supports it. But if you transform a libxml2 tree manually, you are in trouble. You can save XML only as XML, not as HTML. A solution is required. My version is not elegant, but works.

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using xlrd and formatting Excel numbers

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013

The number (and dates) in Excel are float numbers. How these numbers are displyed to an user — as an integer, or with two digits after a point, etc — are defined by the cell format. Unfortunately, xlrd does not support number formatting. It is your task to interpret the format and display the number as expected. My code can probably help. Download xlrd-format-excel-number

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