Thanks Andy. Do you know by any chance a way to do this or can you provide some starting pointers ?
WRT your proposition for contributing, thanks for the offer, but I'm already overbooked with Cactus and a few others ... so I'll have to decline for the time being ... :-) Cheers, -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 March 2002 22:57 > To: poi users > Subject: Re: Changing Word document versioning information upon CVS commit > > The answer is "Not yet"... come back later when the cake is ready. > Right now we have some early support for Word (read only), but its not > going to happen over night. Perhaps you'd like to contribute? > > -Andy > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 16:56, Vincent Massol wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this a RTFM/FAQ. I guess I'm trying to do something quite > > common , which is to use CVS to hold word document but with the > > possibility of automatically reflecting the CVS version in the document > > (and also possibly the document history) upon CVS commit ... In other > > words I'd like my word document versioning information to be in sync > > with the CVS ones. > > > > The automatic CVS stuff on commit looks easy (using the CVS commit > > hook). What seems less trivial is modifying the word document > > programmatically. > > > > Is the current version of POI able to do this ? Is it possible to change > > a word "property" ? Is it possible to change some text in the word > > document and save it back as a word document ? Is there any restriction > > on the word format supported by POI ? > > > > Lots of questions! > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > -- > 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 >
