What is the Spreadsheet Data Connector?

This project contains an abstract layer on top of the Apache POI library. This abstraction layer provides the Spreadsheet Query Language – eXql and additional method to access a spreadsheet.

The current version is designed to support the XLS and XLSX format of Microsoft(C) Excel(R) files.

When to use the Spreadsheet Data Connector

The Spreadsheet Data Connector is well suited for all use cases where you have to access data in Excel sheets and you need a sophisticated language to address and query the data.

Applications of the Spreadsheet Data Connector

Currently the Spreadsheet Data Connector is used in the social topic maps explorer Maiana. In example the information for the topic places are extracted in runtime from an Excel(R) sheet by using the Data Connector.

Please drop us a note when you use the Spreadsheet Data Connector in other projects. We will add it to our list.

Acknowledgements

Excel(R) is registered trademark of Microsoft(C).