excel cell position in java

Question

In one requirement I need to parse a excel file where data can be in cell as well as in row-span and column-span. after parsing I need to create a xml file. witch further needs to be pass as an argument to pre-existing algorithm, which extracts data depending upon some position logic. I need a parser which can extract data with following meta data-- 1-cell position (row, column) 2-row-span and column-span 3-height and width of both

if possible please help.I am using java. Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try jxl [JExcelApi] library for that.
There is a getMergedCells method which return Range reference containing information about merged cell.