Fix#943, which went stale a long time ago, and is now reopened. I believe that the specific problem in that issue was actually mostly resolved some time ago. However, `highestRow/Column` produces questionable results when the delete range overlaps the highest row/column. That is fixed by this PR.
In addition, `removeRow/Column` allow the specification of a non-negative value for `numberOfRows/Columns`. But the expected results in those cases are not defined, and the actual results probably do not meet user expectations. I believe that very few, if any, users are taking advantage of this "feature", but we may as well straighten it out. For 0 rows/columns, I think it makes perfect sense to do nothing. As for negative - if `removeRow(5, 2)` says to remove 2 rows *starting* with 5, I think `removeRow(5, -2)` ought to remove (up to) 2 rows *ending* with 5. The undefined behaviors are changed to act as described in this paragraph.
A number of interesting performance ideas have been submitted by @kemo. PR #4833 optimizes Xls Reader in a number of different ways. One of those, slightly modified, is to use the protected `readFilter` property which is available to all classes which inherit from `BaseReader` (which all our supported readers do), rather than call the `getReadFilter` method to obtain it (often in a loop). That applies to all readers, not just Xls, and is such a good idea that I am fast-tracking it ahead of 4833. Gnumeric, Ods, Xls, Xlsx, and Xml will all receive small performance boosts from it. Csv already does this, so no change is needed there. Html and Slk do not appear to do any filtering; possibly work for another day.
Writer/Xlsx/Chart hard-codes a lot of output values. While nobody has reported a problem involving these, it makes sense to me to copy those values over from what Xlsx/Reader/Chart read, rather than hard-coding them. This involves adding some new properties to Chart and Layout, all, naturally, initialized to the values that we have been hard-coding.
- Chart\date1904
- Chart\lang
- Chart\pageMargins
- Chart\pageSetup
- Layout\bodyPr
With one exception, I have not investigated any of the new properties in depth. That may come in time. The one I did look at is `date1904`. Chances are that it should match the equivalent spreadsheet setting, but it won't matter if there are no dates on your chart, and it often won't matter even if you do. It may well matter if you are using a `date axis`. While looking into that, it became apparent that some Shared Date conversions need to be a bit more flexible, specifying an optional `calendar` parameter rather than relying on the Spreadsheet `calendar` (which is not accessible while processing the chart) or the Shared\Date `calendar` (which is accessible).
Building on PR #3508 and PR #4393, which allowed ignoring 5 different cell 'errors'. Adding this new one should have been dead easy, but MS, in its own inscrutable way, decided to complicate this by making the xml attribute require its very own namespace, unlike any of its relatives.
There are supposed to be several ways to activate this tag. One is to enter a date in cell A1, then in cell B1 enter the formula `=A1`, and set B1's numeric format to `General`.
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