Canadian Conservative party websites and an unreadable XLS file.

[Russell McOrmond <russell flora ca>]

  I am trying to get candidate information into an automatically generated
message on the http://digital-copyright.ca website.  For many of the
parties I could extract the information from the party website.

  The problem party has been the conservative party.  Their website is
excessively non-standard and dependent on both JavaScript and proprietary
Macromedia Flash to navigate.  There seemed to be no way to extract
information for the 308 ridings from their site so I asked if they could
send me a file listing their candidate URLs.

  What I was sent is at:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/files/conservative-websites.xls

  I can't open this file in either Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org.  I don't 
know what was used to generate the file, but this was one of the first 
times I had a problem opening an XLS file in Gnumeric.  I asked the person 
who sent it to me if they could tell me what generated it and whether I 
could get a save-as CSV, but received no reply.

  Any help appreciated.

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 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
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