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May 30.2012

Greetings.

I need to be able to render an Excel file inside of a web browser- preferably read and writable. I do not care if I have to convert the XLS file to XML first just to sidestep the awful ridiculous proprietary container format.

I have looked into PHPExcel, but it appears I am going to have to recreate the layout of the Excel file by hand to mimick the behavior and appearance of Excel inside of the browser (I do not want to do that, if someone can correct me and show me a magical way that PHPExcel will just parse through the XLS file and display it in nice table rows and columns I would love them forever- if anyone could even tell me IF that is even possible I would love them forever as well).

I have also looked into Apache POI, but it appears that it will only render the XLS file sort of client side by installing a Java Applet on the client side computer. I do not want that.

So how would you go about having to render an Excel file inside of a web browser?

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