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This is no longer supported, please consider using TabbyXL2 instead.

TabbyXL

A system for rule-based transformation spreadsheet data from arbitrary to relational tables.

Building with Apache Maven

First, you need to clone the project into your directory

git clone https://github.com/cellsrg/tabbyxl.git

In order to build the executable JAR with dependencies, change to the project directory, where is pom.xml, and run the following command

mvn clean install

We recommend you to use Apache Maven 3.0.5 or more and JDK 1.8.0 or more

You may test the newly compiled and packaged JAR file with the following command:

java -jar target/TabbyXL-0.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar -input samples/sampl.xlsx -ruleset samples/sampl.dslr -output samples/results

or run the testing script

./test.sh

On Windows use the batch file

test.bat

If the program prints at the end something like this

Total number of
	tables: 4
	cells: 105
	not empty cells: 99
	labels: 50
	entries: 51
	label-label pairs: 0
	entry-label pairs: 219
	category-label pairs: 50
	categories: 17
	label groups: 17

Total rule firing time: 91

then it works.

Usage

In order to run the executable JAR, you may use the following command with parameters

java -jar target/TabbyXL-0.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar <params>

Params:
-input <input excel file>          path to an input excel workbook (*.xlsx file)
-sheets <sheet indexes>            sheet indexes in the input excel workbook (e.g. "0-2,4,5,7-10")
-ruleset <drl or dslr file>        path to a ruleset (*.drl or *.dslr file)
-categorySpec <category directory> path to a directory with category specifications in YAML (*.cat files)
-output <output directory>         path to a directory for outputting results
-ignoreSuperscript <true|false>    specify true to ignore superscript text in cells (false used by default)
-useCellText <true|false>          specify true to use cell values as text (false used by default)
-useShortNames <true|false>        specify true to use short names (just sheet names) for output files (false used by default)
-debuggingMode <true|false>        specify true to turn on debugging mode (false used by default)
-help                              print this usage

Only two parameters are mandatory

• -input <input excel file>
• -ruleset <drl or dslr file>

We recommend you to use JRE 8 or more

Authors

• Alexey O. Shigarov
• Andrey A. Mikhailov

License

Apache License, Version 2.0