RE: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Steven Noels
Nicola wrote: > > I'm happy that we found this solution: from a problem we created an > opportunity, and this is good :-) > Yes indeed. Nice work, guys! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Morrison, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Seperate the contrib/optional stuff from core? > Nicola: it looks like everyone (so far ;) is in favour of > seperating this. I know you were/are looking at doing it; how > far have you got? I'm halfway through the samples, but haven't moved any cla

RE: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Morrison, John
al area/cvs (was: RE: POI > Serialization code committed) > > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > >I agree with Carsten: > > > >+1 (seperate the contrib/optional stuff from core?) > >-1 (Should it be located in a seperate cvs?) > > > Same here : > +1

Re: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Davanum Srinivas wrote: >I agree with Carsten: > >+1 (seperate the contrib/optional stuff from core?) >-1 (Should it be located in a seperate cvs?) > Same here : +1 for separation of contrib/optional stuff -1 for a separate CVS. The amount of code doesn't justify it and it would decrease its vis

RE: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Davanum Srinivas
March 12, 2002 11:11 AM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI > > Serialization code committed) > > > > > > OK, lets split this thread. > > > > Should we seperate the contrib/option

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-12 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
>> >>Cocoon is becoming overcrowded with optional components, and this is a fact. >>For this, I think that we need a contrib section, which is optimal for >>Cocoon IMHO. In the near future it will be the famous "Cocoon Blocks" >>section. >> >>I'm +1 for this. I'm refactoring examples in this dire

RE: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
> -Original Message- > From: Morrison, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:11 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI > Serialization code committed) > > > OK, l

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > >I understand that this XML conversion stuff is not a thing that only Cocoon > >needs, but this can be said also to of cocoon contributions. > > > >All Cocoon Generators, Serializers and Transformers could be used out of >

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-12 Thread giacomo
Quoting Sylvain Wallez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > giacomo wrote: > > >On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > >>giacomo wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > >>> > giacomo wrote: > > >As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments > which

Re: [VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Morrison, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Should we seperate the contrib/optional stuff from core? > > +1 +1 > Should it be located in a seperate cvs? > > +1 +1 -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get for

[VOTE] Seperate Contrib/optional area/cvs (was: RE: POI Serialization code committed)

2002-03-12 Thread Morrison, John
OK, lets split this thread. Should we seperate the contrib/optional stuff from core? +1 Should it be located in a seperate cvs? +1 J. > From: Sylvain Wallez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > >From: "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Andy wrote: > >>>Steven wrote: >

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-12 Thread Sylvain Wallez
giacomo wrote: >On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > >>giacomo wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: >>> giacomo wrote: >As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments which >convinced me to support moving thoes classes out of Cocoon and

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-12 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: >From: "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Andy wrote: >> >>>Steven wrote: >>> So I am all unofficial +1 for having a separate module for Cocoon contributions, where we can add the POI integration work, if enough people step up as a maintainer. >>>+1

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Andy wrote: > > > Steven wrote: > > > > > So I am all unofficial +1 for having a separate module for Cocoon > > > contributions, where we can add the POI integration work, if enough > > > people step up as a maintainer. > > > > +1 if there are enough to

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
acoliver wrote: >>Ok. Strict and precise mode on. I usually prefer friendly discussions >>that lead to a consensus, but let's adapt to the POI way. >> > >Perhaps your not aware of it. Your tone doesn't come off that way. > This discussion didn't start in a friendly way, so this isn't my usual

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Steven Noels
Andy wrote: > Steven wrote: > > > > So I am all unofficial +1 for having a separate module for Cocoon > > contributions, where we can add the POI integration work, if enough > > people step up as a maintainer. > > +1 if there are enough to justify it. > I hope the remainder of my arguments are n

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Marc Johnson
I'll maintain the poi serialization code ... I just need access. > > > So I am all unofficial +1 for having a separate module for Cocoon > > contributions, where we can add the POI integration work, if enough > > people step up as a maintainer. > >+1 if there are enough to justify it. > >(person

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread acoliver
> So I am all unofficial +1 for having a separate module for Cocoon > contributions, where we can add the POI integration work, if enough > people step up as a maintainer. +1 if there are enough to justify it. (personally I think more and better organized documentation for Cocoon is an even be

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Steven Noels
Ken, or was it Nicola wrote: ;-) (me just pretending to be the open source antropologist looking into this from the sideline) (asbesto suit activated - fire at will) > The only logical solution I see now (correct or enhance this > point at will), > is that the elementprocessor code seems to b

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread giacomo
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > giacomo wrote: > > >On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > > >>giacomo wrote: > >> > >>>As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments which > >>>convinced me to support moving thoes classes out of Cocoon and only > >>>leave the

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
acoliver wrote: >>For people on poi-dev who don't know what this is all about (BTW >>congrats for your nomination as a POI committer, Ken), let's summarize >>by saying that I was very surprised by seeing more than 100 classes >>added in Cocoon's CVS for the HSSF serializer. The Cocoon team vot

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Marc Johnson
Just as clarification, as the author of most of the classes under discussion: the classes do NOT model a spreadsheet. Each of the element processor classes is reponsible for understanding its corresponding XML element and for creating the relevant part of the spreadsheet that is being construc

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: >From: "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>giacomo wrote: >> >>>We have to see where the other code will best fit into other project (if >>>the POI team cannot be convinced to hold it in their CVS). >>> >>We should do our best to convince them that XML support in PO

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
>>Any comments from the POI side? >> > Not up to now. And this makes me wonder even more about the support of > these 100+ classes... I'm gonna bring this discussion to poi-dev. Gosh, > one more mailing list :( I responded directly to that which asked for my comments. I felt the conversation had

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>One of their objectives seems to keep the library as small as possible. > >>To achieve this, they could package the XML stuff in a separate jar > >>(poi-xml.jar) so that people can use only poi.jar if they don't care > >>about XML. > > > >Seems a val

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
giacomo wrote: >On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > >>giacomo wrote: >> >>>As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments which >>>convinced me to support moving thoes classes out of Cocoon and only >>>leave the serializer and Avalon component glue code in Cocoon's CVS. >

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-09 Thread giacomo
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > giacomo wrote: > > >As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments which > >convinced me to support moving thoes classes out of Cocoon and only > >leave the serializer and Avalon component glue code in Cocoon's CVS. > > > Thanks, Giacom

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-08 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > giacomo wrote: > >We have to see where the other code will best fit into other project (if > >the POI team cannot be convinced to hold it in their CVS). > > > We should do our best to convince them that XML support in POI is a good > thing for the proj

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-08 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > giacomo wrote: > >We have to see where the other code will best fit into other project (if > >the POI team cannot be convinced to hold it in their CVS). > > > We should do our best to convince them that XML support in POI is a good > thing for the proj

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-08 Thread Sylvain Wallez
giacomo wrote: >As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments which >convinced me to support moving thoes classes out of Cocoon and only >leave the serializer and Avalon component glue code in Cocoon's CVS. > Thanks, Giacomo. I value your judgment as you are one of the Cocoon "

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread John Morrison
Do we have sufficient code &/ reason for a separate Cocoon-contrib cvs? J. > -Original Message- > From: giacomo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 07 March 2002 10:06 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: POI Serialization code committed > > > &

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread giacomo
As always when Sylvain gets engadged he has very good arguments which convinced me to support moving thoes classes out of Cocoon and only leave the serializer and Avalon component glue code in Cocoon's CVS. We have to see where the other code will best fit into other project (if the POI team can

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Sylvain Wallez wrote: >> >> This comes to me as a surprise; AFAIK it was unanimously voted upon >> like 2 >> months ago. >> > What was voted in january was (taken back from the archives) "Would you > like the cocoon-specific POI code to be hosted in the Cocoon CVS and > shipped with the next di

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread Per Kreipke
> > The scope of POI seeks to be really small and focused: Java > ports of OLE 2 > >Compound Document based file formats. We have no XML classes nor do I > >really want any there. > > > XML is now a dominant technology in the software arena, because it moves > software development from sequential

Re: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread Sylvain Wallez
acoliver wrote: >>That's really cool stuff, however I have some wonders about the source >>code that's been added to the Cocoon CVS : >> > >This comes to me as a surprise; AFAIK it was unanimously voted upon like 2 >months ago. > What was voted in january was (taken back from the archives) "Would

RE: POI Serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread acoliver
> That's really cool stuff, however I have some wonders about the source > code that's been added to the Cocoon CVS : This comes to me as a surprise; AFAIK it was unanimously voted upon like 2 months ago. The package names were cross referenced with the location in the previous CVS. The only thi

Re: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-07 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: >POI stuff committed with samples. > >:-) > >Please cross check. > That's really cool stuff, however I have some wonders about the source code that's been added to the Cocoon CVS : - shouldn't all the ElementProcessor stuff be better located in the POI CVS repository ?

RE: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:18, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > > http://localhost/cocoon/samples/poi/hypothetical-sales.xls: > I think this one have alignment bug. B1 shows "DOSDOS", and A15 shows > "Totals:Totals:Totals:...". Changing alignment of the A15 and B1 to the > "right" fixes the bug. :-/ Fixed

Re: RE: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread acoliver
Appologies to those who get this twice. >> Can you be a bit more specific? Is this something other than the >alignment >> bug? > >I'm not aware of POI bug list... Here are my observations: > you can access it here if you like: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=POI >http:

RE: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
> From: acoliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >> From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> > >> POI stuff committed with samples. > >> > >> :-) > >> > >> Please cross check. > > > Wow. Looks cool! However, some examples behave *very* strange with > > Office XP... > > > > Vadim >

Re: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread acoliver
POI::HSSF 1.x does not support formulas as of yet. This development is in the works. The serializer currently just ignores formula cells entirely for the moment. If anyone is interested in helping with this (preferrably with parser experience) check out the poi-dev list over on Jakarta. I thin

RE: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread acoliver
>> From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> POI stuff committed with samples. >> >> :-) >> >> Please cross check. > Wow. Looks cool! However, some examples behave *very* strange with > Office XP... > > Vadim Can you be a bit more specific? Is this something other than the al

Re: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Hartle
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: >POI stuff committed with samples. > >:-) > >Please cross check. > Very, very interesting stuff; I have been testing it with OpenOffice Build 641b, and all samples technically work, although I have never seen a sample using formulas for calculation; those fields where

RE: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
> From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > POI stuff committed with samples. > > :-) > > Please cross check. Wow. Looks cool! However, some examples behave *very* strange with Office XP... Vadim > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - v

Re: POI serialization code committed

2002-03-06 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > POI stuff committed with samples. > > :-) > > Please cross check. BTW, there's still a (known) issue: cell values are presented multiple times in a cell if horizontal alignment is not specified. The solution is in the works. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi