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Posted to dev@poi.apache.org by Ryan Ackley <sa...@cfl.rr.com> on 2003/05/08 12:43:34 UTC

Re: Creating MS-Document using HDF

Praveen,

I just had a great idea! You could add this capability to HDF.

Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Praveen Mathew" <pr...@in.ibm.com>
To: <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 4:00 AM
Subject: Creating MS-Document using HDF


> Hi all,
>              Has anyone tried to create a Doc using an implementation
built
> on HDF api's . I think the current HDF api's source given in apache
> scratchpad can be only used  to read a Doc file into POIFS filesystem.
>
> I need to make an HTML to Doc converter in a platform independent way.
> Should I go for a reverse implementation of the HDF api's in java or use
> the OpenOffice SDK. which already does this as i came to know.
> But if using Openoffice SDK i guess we have to depend on "glib" library
> which will take away the "Full open source" label.  So I am in a dilema.
>
> Can anyone please give some inputs on how to proceed. Has anyone tried to
> implement this using POIFS & HDF ??
> Any help is deeply appreciated
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Praveen
>
> Praveen Mathew
> IBM Software Labs,
> Airport Road,
> Bangalore 560 017
> India.
> Email: prmathew@in.ibm.com
>
>
>
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