Jakarta POI Excel97-2000 (Excel 2003?)

Hi All
I need to read data from Excel 2003 spreadsheet using my java program.
I looked at Jakarta POI, and JDBC-ODBC bridge options.
POI says Excel97-2000
Creating system DSN does not show Excel 2003 options. It shows Excel97-2000, Excel 3.0 etc
My environment is Windows XP 2002.
Can I read Excel 2003 documents using POI?
If I deploy this program on a machine which has earlier versions of excel on it will it be able to read.
I just have plain text in excel spreadsheet.
Please let me know.
Thanks
bib

Hard to answer this question definitively because it very much depends upon exactly what is in the file. If you have saved a complex, formatted document that makes extensive use of features that were introduced into Excel for version 2003 then you will face problems. If the file contains simply plain text, then you should be fine. Most of the API authors base their product on an earlier version of the BIFF8 format to ensure compatibility with as wide a range of Excel versions as possible. That is why they all mention that the API will handle files that are based upon a specific version of Excel. Hopefully, you will be fine distributing the application onto machines that run earlier versions of Excel.
By the way, have you also considered JExcel? It handles a few things differently to HSSF (POI) and you may prefer the way it approaches parsing an Excel spreadsheet file and exposing it's contents.

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