/** * @class Ext.exporter.file.ooxml.excel.SharedStrings * @extend Ext.exporter.file.ooxml.Xml * * A workbook can contain thousands of cells containing string (non-numeric) data. Furthermore this * data is very likely to be repeated across many rows or columns. The goal of implementing a single * string table that is shared across the workbook is to improve performance in opening and saving * the file by only reading and writing the repetitive information once. * * [Example: Consider for example a workbook summarizing information for cities within various countries. * There can be a column for the name of the country, a column for the name of each city in that country, * and a column containing the data for each city. In this case the country name is repetitive, being * duplicated in many cells. end example] In many cases the repetition is extensive, and significant savings * are realized by making use of a shared string table when saving the workbook. When displaying text in * the spreadsheet, the cell table will just contain an index into the string table as the value of a cell, * instead of the full string. * * The shared string table is permitted to contain all the necessary information for displaying the string: * the text, formatting properties, and phonetic properties (for East Asian languages). * * Most strings in a workbook have formatting applied at the cell level, that is, the entire string in the * cell has the same formatting applied. In these cases, the formatting for the cell is stored in the styles * part, and the string for the cell can be stored in the shared strings table. In this case, the strings * stored in the shared strings table are very simple text elements. * * @private */