I have a spreadsheet created in Excel. It has fields and values that have been laid out using the columns and rows. I want to export the layout of the fields and values into an xsl that i can use to produce a pdf file.

Since i want to be able to include images and the like in the sheet, i can't use straight up csv or xml because the linked information is filtered out. I am currently looking at saving the sheet as xml/html, and then extracting the layout information, but its pretty ugly. Is there anything out there that can accomplish what im trying to do?

I am not sure what you mean by "filtered out" - If you save the excel sheet to xml, the link is an attribute of the cell and can be processed to a pdf with xsl-fo.

I created a simple spreadsheet with a cell that contained www.yahoo.com

this is what it looks like in XML