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Get the code: The code in this blog post is now available at: http://github.com/tealeg/FODS2XML Background For a while now I’ve been receiving data in Excel files that needed to be integrated into some better structured XML data. Originally I was using a little xls2csv from the catdoc package in Arch Linux to pull the data from the horrible bloated XLS files into something usable. The trouble is the conversion to CSV was a little error prone and it’s really hard to see such errors in a 40MB CSV file....

Clojure So.. Firstly a quick update re: clojure. I’m still using it, productively and occasionally frustraitedly. Most frustration comes from my lack of available time and the relative newness of the language. Now Clojure is 2 years old there are often libraries are available to do things in a way idiomatic to Clojure rather than just using Java libraries directly, however there’s no a great deal of documentation of examples for these libraries....