Tabulate, Tagsets.ExcelXp and Dates

[snoopy369]

I'm not convinced it's working, in any event; looking at the raw XML, it's still a string - excel's just being smart about it.  I am probably not using the style properly, I am a PROC REPORT guy not a PROC TABULATE guy when it comes to these sorts of things.

[wcpatton]

Yeah, I'm a tabulate guy, but SAS doesn't seem to want to play nice here.  Maybe I'll have to learn REPORT for this, unless SAS wants to fix this. 

[snoopy369]

I believe that the problem is, at least for Tabulate, that the headers are technically always character - so in creating the resulting xml, they're sent as 'string'.  You might be able to fix this by editing the tagset itself, though I'm not sure where I'd suggest beginning there.  I don't think tagsets.excelxp will receive too much more development now that ODS EXCEL is largely out, so I wouldn't expect it to change - but who knows.