HyperlinkBase Property, and Html Handling of Properties #3589
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Fix #3573. The original issue concerned non-support of Document Properties in Xml spreadsheets. However, most of the Properties mentioned there were already supported. But the investigation revealed some gaps in Html coverage.
HyperlinkBase is the one property mentioned in the issue that was not supported for Xml, nor indeed for any other format. All the other document properties are 'meta'; but HyperlinkBase is functional - if you supply a relative address for a link, Excel will use HyperlinkBase, if supplied, to convert to an absolute address. (Default is directory where spreadsheet is located.) Here's a summary of how this PR will handle this property for various formats:
base
tag in the head section. Support for this is added to Html reader and writer.Html Writer was only handling 8 of the 11 'core' properties. Support is added for
created
,modified
, andlastModifiedBy
. Custom properties were not supported at all, and now are.Html Reader did not support any properties. It will now support all of them.
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