Oh and there is some perl stuff on CPAN too... There is also a perl script that htDig (www.htdig.org) uses to provide this functionality but I don't remember much about it.
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 18:54, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 18:23, Vincent Massol wrote: > > Thanks Andy. Do you know by any chance a way to do this or can you > > provide some starting pointers ? > > > > Not in Java... Use OpenOffice.org's API's (www.openoffice.org) > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
