How to extract a list of external references from a excel file
问题 I'm working on setting up an automated processing system for a (ever growing) unstructured collection of excel documents. The collection consists of both old-school .xls files and new .xlsx files. In my Java-based solution I am already making use of the Apache POI toolkit to analyse the documents. One challenges that I have not been able to tackle yet, is how to identify links between documents so as to chart dependencies. I have not yet been able to figure out how to conveniently extract a