Re: [office-formula] YEARFRAC again

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Monday, 2007-01-29 13:43:31 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:

> > > Since Excel does not support ODF we can in fact address the Excel
> > > compatibility when we open Excel files
> > 
> > That's easier said than done. While it works for single value arguments,
> > you can't remap an argument's value in an import filter if the argument
> > is calculated.
> 
> Why?  I can't just remap one constant to another but I could clearly
> construct a function wrapper on import.

Sure. All these remapping things however mostly at some point don't work
anymore if you're concerned about round-trip editing.

> I hope we have _not_ adopted the idea of building a standard that is
> fully compatible with Excel.

No, but I'd like to avoid creating arbitrary differences if we don't
need them.

  Eike

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