Excel - POI-HSSF - HTML

Hey guys,
Im looking for a way to copy an excel file and convert it into a html file. I have found a way to read excel files using POI-HSSF (Fantastic tool by the way). What Im wondering is now that I have the worksheets contents stored in java is there any kind of library that you would recommend that might generate the tables ripped from Excel to HTML automatically?
Thanks for your help in advance
Valehru

YoGee,
Thanks for the response. Im afraid that the client has insisted that I convert the document to html. I presume that if it was streamed out that it would open an excel worksheet in the browser itself?
If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Personally id prefer that they use openoffice and just convert the thing to a pdf but as they say the customer is always right. Im pretty sure that It will take me a fair bit of time trying to parse the data I receive via HSSF into proper valid HTML which looks similar if not identical to the data in the excel file.
Thanks again for your reply

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