seamusabshere/xlsx_writer — pull request #3 by ledbettj (2012-07-12 18:28:04+00:00)
Title: Use Shared String table instead of inlineString

* generate a `xl/sharedstring.xml` file containing string values in the document.
* add appropriate references in other XML documents to the shared strings table.

What I was trying to make happen was to make the document readable in iWorks Numbers 2009, but it still doesn't seem to work correctly. This may be valuable anyway (or maybe not).

Tested and works with LibreOffice 3.4.3 on OS X as that's all I have access to. It would be great if someone else could test in native Excel.