Good stuff, I definitely vote +1 for it! I was waiting for something like this to appear, so I can automatically publish on the Web all the Word/Excel/Powerpoint docs I receive on my Linux desktop ;-)
Cheers, Ovidiu On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:50:55 +0100, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > > POI is a java library to read/write the M$ Office format. > > You can read more at the current home of the effort: > > http://poi.sourceforge.net > > I believe that being able to read/write (say generate/serialize in > Cocoon-ese) excel and word formats will be a *major* advantage of > Cocoon, expecially for my future goal of a full KMS system. > > Using Word and Excel as editors for an native XML system will be, IMO, > *extremely* cool and would allow shops and offices to start moving their > legacy docs into the system without requiring commercial solutions. > > POI has been proposed to donation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If > approuved will become a general java library since there is nothing > XML-related about it. > > At the same time, the POI project contains some cocoon-specific code > that they would like to donate to us. > > In order to accept the donation, we must vote. > > Note: the donation will take place even if POI is not accepted under > Jakarta. In that case, Cocoon will ship POI as an external library (no > license problems since the entire thing is based on the apache license). > > They already separated the cocoon-specific code into a package in order > to simplify the donation. They also would like to continue its > development since they believe that Cocoon will be one of the best > 'users' of their library. > > So, please, place your vote on the question below: > > Would you like the cocoon-specific POI code to be hosted in the Cocoon > CVS and shipped with the next distribution (along with the POI library > in the /lib directory)? > > Thanks. > > -- > Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be > able to give birth to a dancing star. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
