On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Gregg Morris wrote:
I've been using POI XWPF for a couple weeks now. Ultimately I'll be using the POI libraries through jython, but I've been working with the Java code as I learn my way around. My primary need for POI XWPF is for creating fairly simple MS Word-compatible documents with somewhat more complex tables. To do what I need to do, I've had to burrow deep into the underlying ooxml-schema classes that are exposed by the XWPF classes. I've mostly succeeded in creating the tables I want, but my question is, to what extent is it appropriate for the XWPF classes to provide higher-level support for lower-level actions?
All being well, you should never need to drop down into the CT xmlbeans layer - everything ought to be handled by XWPF classes wrapping these in a friendly manner.
However, being a volunteer project, not everything currently has nice code wrapping it, so the CT beans are exposed so that people can work around gaps. Ideally though, we want people to contribute patches to fill in gaps in the XWPF api, so others don't need to get down that low
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