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+title:  "wbc: generating xlsx"
+author: jadudm
+draft: true
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+  - cc-sa
+  - wbc
+  - blog
+  - "2025"
+  - 2025-09
+date: 2025-09-16
+---
+
+Generating Excel workbooks in code is hard. By this, I mean that writing code that outputs an XLSX document involves a lot of details (contents, formatting, data validations), and you have to learn a lot about XLSX in order to do it right. 
+
+**But Matt: who would ever want to generate Excel documents from code?**
+
+It turns out, most everyone who works with data. Also, *every government everywhere*. Spreadsheets are the lifeblood of governments around the world. Also, financial institutions. And researchers. And... and...
+
+## a workbook "compiler"
+
+For a number of months (years?), I've been thinking about writing a workbook "compiler." In technical terms, a compiler transforms one language or representation of content to another while preserving the intention of the programmer. In this case, I want a way to express a workbook in one language (say, a textual representation like JSON) and I want to transform it to another representation (an XLSX document, or spreadsheet).
+
+For example, I'd like to be able to say write something like this:
+
+```json
+{
+  "workbook": "my first spreadsheet",
+  "sheets": [
+    {
+      "name": "empty sheet"
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+and run a program that consumes that textual file, producing as output the XLSX document.
+

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+title: Sept 2025
+# type: blog
+weight: 10
+description: All posts in September 2025
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+{{< listofposts "2025-09" >}}

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+title: "2025"
+# type: blog
+weight: 75 # 2025 - 2000
+description: All posts in 2025
+---
+
+{{< listofposts "2025" >}}