DarwinCoreArchive Reader does strange things with Excel

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Reporter: mdoering
Type: Bug
Summary: DarwinCoreArchive Reader does strange things with Excel
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-05-19 10:34:52.625
Updated: 2014-05-19 10:34:52.625
        
Description: Copied from https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=153

The BiSciCol team report that the DwC-A reader does strange things if you pass it an Excel file:


        // Oddly, ArchiveFactory will open an Excel 97-2003 file without
        // throwing an exception, even though reading the file results in
        // garbage.  To deal with this, check the extension of the file to make
        // sure it is not "xls".

This is from the Triplifier, which takes a DwC-A and turns it into a set of triples
  https://code.google.com/p/triplifier/source/browse/trunk/src/reader/plugins/DWCAReader.java]]>