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List:       poi-dev
Subject:    Re: Scratchpad failure
From:       "Ryan Ackley" <sackley () cfl ! rr ! com>
Date:       2004-03-23 16:42:52
Message-ID: 003c01c410f5$e2cbb750$7edacda3 () tdryan
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> Yes I am aware of it but didn't get the opportunity to test it yet. I was
> wondering why this wasn't part of POI ?

Because it is similar but not really the same as POI. You see the problem
with HWPF is that it has been in a constant state of "under construction"
since it arrived at POI. I wanted to give the text extractor visibility that
it couldn't get as part of HWPF.

> Well honestly I have no idea of the current state of HWPF so I really
don't
> know what it's already capable of doing and what it can't. My use for it
> would be to extract content from the system I develop (Jahia) and export
> content into Word files (and the reverse would be cool too), for example
> using paragraph and character style information.

It is capable of doing that, I will add some basic doco tonight for you.

-Ryan


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