Hi, (Andrew, maybe this is going to be a nice case study..)
We are currently looking at a refactoring of our corespondence module in our softwarepackage. Since the main stream use at our (potential) customers is Ms word, a lot of focus from the "sales' people is towards that. I "hate" the idea of being dependend on the use of only ms word and especially don't like the fact to integrate word into our java application. I suggested the use of storing the correspondence in an xml format, using xsl stylesheets to process it to the selected output (pdf, txt, rtf, html, whatever else is out there). I don't see much trouble with this, only I don't know if poi is yet implemented in an xsl environment like FOP. As far as I understood most office documents are accessible by POI Is there at the moment a "simple" way to read word documents wit POI, so we can extract the body text (not header or footer) using the HDF, or is there some work to be done in that area or is it expected to be stable? Mvgr, Martin PS just trying to use everything from apache ;))) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
