Hi Nick,

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:08 +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > I'm diving into the POI HWPF component to dump doc files. I'm 
> > encountering some difficulties with the PAPX object. I'ld like to dump 
> > the SPRMs contained in it. According to the spec the Grpprl contains 
> > starts with an SPRM, but it seems that POI at least reads the istd value 
> > from there. Even this way, I'm getting some weird opCode when using the 
> > SprmIterator.
> 
> It's quite possibly a POI bug... HWPF has been in need of some TLC for a 
> while now, but alas no-one has had the time to dedicate much coding to it. 
> You could well have discovered an area where we're doing something wrong

Ok, it's "good" to know that the HWPF coding is kind of suspended. I may
have some stuffs to contribute back from my dumper, but mostly for the
reading aspect.

> If you can see from the binary file docs that we should be doing one 
> thing, and discover that we're not quite doing it, do please fix and send 
> in a patch! If you could include a unit test that shows the newly correct 
> behaviour, that'd be great too :)

Ok! Then I'll try to find some time to dive into that bug and see what's
going wrong. Sometimes my understanding of the WW8 specs is wrong: that
might be the bug too ;)

Regards,

-- 
Cédric Bosdonnat
Go-oo hacker
http://go-oo.org
OOo Eclipse Integration developer
http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr




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