https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53404

Yegor Kozlov <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---

--- Comment #9 from Yegor Kozlov <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> i've been able to address the issue with what you describe (n.b.: with a fix
> for the typo to use ByteArrayInputStream as an argument to the HSSFWorksheet
> ctor).
> 
> is there a more reliable way to determine the version other than by
> exception handling?  e.g. is there a metadata property somewhere that would
> reflect this?
> 

No, HSSF does not write version info in the output.

> i've toyed with the idea of using getImplementationVersion() (as the test
> program uses for printing)...
> 
> all this said, i'm surprised by the reluctance to try to address this issue.
> as it happens we have several thousand legacy spreadsheets in pre-3.6
> format.  can you be more specific why it won't be fixed?

It wasn't clear that you have several thousand legacy spreadsheets in pre-3.6
format. I thought tha tall you need is to upgrade both writer and editor parts
to the latest and greatest POI-3.8. 

I re-opened the bug. Hope to have it fixed by POI-3.9 (late 2012). 

Yegor

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