摘要 |
A system for allowing a spreadsheet to be viewed and modified from within the context of a Web browser application program, comprises: a first server computer operative to execute program code for receiving a request for a renderable version of a spreadsheet from the Web browser application program, for requesting from a second server computer a version of the spreadsheet expressed using the extensible markup language spreadsheet (XMLSS) format, for receiving from the second server computer the XMLSS version of the spreadsheet, for converting the XMLSS version of the spreadsheet to a renderable version of the spreadsheet, and for responding to the request from the Web browser with the renderable version of the spreadsheet; and a second server computer operative to receive the request from the first server computer for the XMLSS version of the spreadsheet, to retrieve a native version of the spreadsheet from a database, to convert the native version of the spreadsheet to the XMLSS version of the spreadsheet, and to respond to the request from the first server computer with the XMLSS version of the spreadsheet.
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