Re: Reading and Writing new Word Documents

[av...@itellix.com]

> Is it a near or distant future thing?
Ah .. that is the one thing thats impossible to say in open source. I will say 
two contradictory things :)

1. While Ryan has done a huge amount of work, he's at it alone at the moment. 
And there is a huge amount of work to be done. The more help he gets, the 
faster it will be done. 

2. On the other hand, simple cases work at the moment, and if you are ready to 
get your hands dirty, you may have a go at it. Ryan's built a decent skeleton 
that people can flesh out. In general, what we advise our users is "if YOUR 
testcases based on YOUR requirements passes, you should use it, and not 
otherwise" 

I know this is not necessarily what you wanted to hear..... 

Regards
-
Avik

Quoting simon.j.faughnan@accenture.com:

> Hi,
>  
> I currently have a requirement to read in the contents of a Word Document,
> display the contents to the user, allow them to edit the contents and then
> save these updated contents to a new Word Doc.  POI seems ideal and I have
> been very impressed with what I have seen, read and tested so far (I have
> downloaded poi-bin-2.0-RC1-20031102.tar.gz).
>  
> I notice that a new package hwdf now exists in the scratchpad section which
> contains all the code I would require and replaces HDF. 
>  
> I have read the mailing lists and most recent release docs so am not asking
> this question blindly!  I am sure you guys are sick of answering this
> question but could you tell me when this code might be available for download
> as a (relatively stable) JAR.  Is it a near or distant future thing?
>  
> Thanks for your time and keep up the great work.
>  
> Regards,
> Simon.
> 
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