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DaLi Liu commented on ODFTOOLKIT-143:
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Verified status of this issue
1.invalid or fixed or no response - maybe can be closed;
Now we can use simple api to get content of document - maybe can be closed;
> Doing simple things with text documents is much too difficult
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> Key: ODFTOOLKIT-143
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-143
> Project: ODF Toolkit
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 0.8.6
> Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
> Reporter: kelvin
> Assignee: issues
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.0
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> This weekend I decided to experiment with text documents. Most of my work up
> until now has been focussed in the spreadsheet area.
> I have the following observations.
> Creating a rudimentary text document is easy (so long as all you want to do
> is create a document and put text into it with no style).
> Reading text from a document however is very complex. In fact the API seems
> to give me so little help that frankly I might as well just unzip the ODT
> file and use my own XPath code to process it.
> As far as I can see, to read a text doc all I can do is get a byte stream of
> the XML markup and/or use XPath expressions to walk the ODF XML tree. This is
> not good enough for a higher level API and requires me to know the ODF syntax.
> The user should not need to understand the ODF XML grammar or even know about
> XPath expressions to do simple things like get the text from the second
> paragraph in the document.
> I was really surprised to find the API so deficient in this area. I view this
> as a major gap.
> Is there a plan to address this soon?
> It seems a lot of effort is going in to fixing the lower level processing but
> frankly unless the toolkit makes the life of the average programmer much
> easier then it will not get much adoption.
> I think this area needs to be enhanced very soon. For XML experts it is no
> big deal and yes I could write code using today's API but the average user of
> the toolkit should not have to be an XML or ODF expert.
> I marked this as a P1 enhancement request as I think this is urgent.
> Kelvin
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