Right, but this is a windows-specific binary format. Not an XML tag language. The API for the binary format is the part I think that is POI. XML tag lanugages for it...well thats not POI.
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: >From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I disagree, I think the windows specific file format stuff (WMF) should >>end up in a package of POI. >> > >Ha. > >>(I'm okay with that package being tied to >>awt as its strictly image related so long as other packages dont >>directly link to it and make X a requirement). IT could also be a jar >>in and of itself so that BAtik could import it. I think it woudl get >>better exposure for what it is over here too. (If I'm looking for WMF >>am I going to think Batik or POI? Probably POI...the actual SVG stuff >>I'd think Batik)... maybe its me. I realize this would be a political >>nightmere "give us your code because it makes the most sense to have it >>here rather than there" -- but *shrug* it does. >> >>Thats just my thought. I've no real objection to it going in commons. >> > >It's Morphos, man. I thought we agreed to keep POI as lean as possible for >the time being. > >Let's do this: Drew, just do it, send it here, and we will put it or in Poi, >or in Commons. >The final line is: we want it :-) > >-- >Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 18:11, Drew Varner wrote: >> >>>I agree. Should be our (my) toil. >>> >>>- Drew >>> >>>Quoting Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>From: "Drew Varner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 10:52 PM >>>>Subject: Re: Numeric Types in org.apache.poi.hpsf.littleendian >>>> >>>> >>>>... >>>> >>>>>What is appropriate is to ask Batik to put the WMF >>>>>rasterizing classes into the Commons. It'd be a small, modular >>>>> >>>>component >>>>useful >>>> >>>>>in applications that need to use and <rant>manipulate</rant> OLE2 >>>>> >>>>data. >>>> >>>>Let's put it this way: What is appropriate is to put the Batik WMF >>>>rasterizing classes into the Commons. >>>> >>>>Reap the code from Batik, make it work on its own, and I will put it >>>> >in > >>>>Commons Scratchpad. >>>> >>>>When it's done, we'll se if they want to use the Commons version ;-) >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> - verba volant, scripta manent - >>>> (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) >>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>___________________ >>>Drew Varner >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>-- >>http://www.superlinksoftware.com >>http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound >>Document >> format to java >>http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html >>- fix java generics! >>The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to >>vote. >>-Ambassador Kosh >> >> > >
