I completely agree. I'm working (hopefully this weekend) on revising and submitting patches for including the HSSF Serializer docs. This includes a *how to* for setting up (by hand) the HSSF Serializer and *how to* use it in a simple dynamic example. I noticed the SQL based example got dropped.. . I'll see what needs to be done to revise and submit that. (I imagine it has to do with the SQLTransforer being deprecated)
Regardless, the POI Serializaiton code currently only includes the HSSF Serializer. HSSF stands for Horrible Spreadsheet Format. It lets you serialize your XML as Excel spreadsheets. You can read more about the file format ports at http://jakarta.apache.org/poi. The POI::HSSF serializer uses the same XML format as the popular opensource spreadsheet program Gnumeric. Using the POI::HSSF Serializer it is really easy to deploy reporting solutions. In the near future the following additions are planned: formulas and graphing support for the POI::HSSF Serializer. POI::HSSF Generator - to go the other direction POI::HDF Serializer - Horrible Document Format. To serialize to Word format. POI::HDF Generator - you should begin to see a pattern. I'm sure I speak for all of the POI developers when I say we look forward to our continued collaboration with and participation with the Cocoon community. -Andy > Hi, > > today two new "things" were donated/comitted to the Cocoon scratchpad - the > Castor Transformer and the POI Serialization code. > It would help people like me (who do not read all the messages or much worse > remember them all) if comitters could add a couple of lines or paragraphs as > to what can be done with the new components when sending off the announcements. > Obviously I could check out the components from CVS or hunt through the > mailing archives to find out what POI is (and I did) - but a few lines of > explanation in the announcement would help. > I think there are quite a few people who trigger on messages like this and > it would help us. > What do you think? > Matthew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
