acoliver 2003/07/03 11:42:13
Modified: src/documentation/content/xdocs index.xml
Log:
pandering to google
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1.4 +8 -4 jakarta-poi/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
Index: index.xml
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retrieving revision 1.3
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diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- index.xml 11 May 2003 01:07:35 -0000 1.3
+++ index.xml 3 Jul 2003 18:42:13 -0000 1.4
@@ -18,11 +18,15 @@
<section><title>Purpose</title>
<p>
The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats
- based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java.
+ based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In
short, you can
+ read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon, you'll be able to read and
write
+ Word files using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Word
Excel solution.
+ However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE 2 Compound Document
formats and welcome
+ others to participate.
</p>
<p>
OLE 2 Compound Document Format based files include most Microsoft Office
- files such as XLS and DOC.
+ files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file formats.
</p>
<p>
As a general policy we try to collaborate as much as possible with other
projects to
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@
we say that POIFS is the most complete and correct port of this file
format to date!
</p>
<p>
- You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an XLS (Excel) file
using Java. You can also read and modify
+ You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an Excel file using Java
(XLS). You can also read and modify
spreadsheets using this API, although right now writing is more mature.
</p>
</section>
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