On Feb 23, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Florian Hopf wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to let you know that I started work on a POI workbook adapter > for the ODFToolkit. The goal is to make the POI Workbook functionality > available for ODS documents so users can use the familiar POI API to read and > modify Open Document spreadsheets. The code still is in an early stage but so > far it looks quite promising. It's an interesting task because it is a rather > rare opportunity to have an existing implementation that I can use to see how > the API should behave. I already noticed that the ODFToolkit needs some > further enhancements and fixes to implement all the functionality but I am > waiting for the current release to be completed. > > I think providing the existing POI API for Open Document formats will be a > huge benefit for many users as for simple use cases I expect this to be > nearly a drop in replacement.
This is wonderful. I'm looking forward to the results. When you are closer you should also inform the Apache Tika community as this may also improve the consumption of ODF docs in text extraction. Tika is used by Apache Solr and Apache Jackrabbit (JCR). Regards, Dave > > Regards > Florian > > -- > Florian Hopf > Freelance Software Developer > > http://blog.florian-hopf.de > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org
