RE: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++

[Dom L. <ci...@ho...>]

I wouldn't say that at all. wvWare has a very singular purpose - to read 
(and eventually write) msword docs. Which underlying OLE2 library we choose 
to use in order to read the document streams is irrelevant.

The POI HDF project aims to do something similar to what wvWare already 
does. POI also does so in Java, which doesn't play well with the main 
driving force behind wvWare at the moment, which is the C++ AbiWord project. 
POI HDF is only in planning stages. wvWare is production-level quality, 
working code.

You're free to spend your time as you'd like to.

Dom

>From: "Corby Wilson" <co...@ei...>
>To: <ci...@ho...>, <tjm...@tj...>,   
><wvw...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:45:53 -0400
>
>Would it be correct to say that wvWare is going out of scope in favor of
>other systems like POI.  Should I be concentrating on these other
>projects instead?
>
>Corby
>Senior Software Engineer
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wvw...@li...
>[mailto:wvw...@li...] On Behalf Of Dom
>Lachowicz
>Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:19 AM
>To: tjm...@tj...; wvw...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++
>
>wv1 will be ported shortly to use GNOME2's gsf module, which is a
>C/GObject
>based structured file library which is in part based on POI.
>
>Dom
>
> >From: "T.J. Mather" <tjm...@tj...>
> >To: <wvw...@li...>
> >Subject: [Wvware-devel] wv2 status and Poi++
> >Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:41:53 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >Currently work on wv2 is stalled, because the author, Werner Trobin, is
> >busy.  Writing to the MS Word format is very difficult, and should
>ideally
> >only have to be done once, by one library.  The HDF subproject of
>Apache
> >POI looks very promising.  It's written in Java, and there is work
> >underway to provide a C++ port of it.
> >
> >http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hdf/
> >
> >HDF is under active development, and borrows elements from wv2.
> >HDF has the advantage of using XML and XSLT for automatic code
> >generation.  wv2 uses HTML and Perl for automatic code generation.
> >IMHO, using XML and XSLT makes it easier to develop and maintain.
> >
> >So I think it would be ideal to pool our resources with the Apache POI
> >project, generating a Java and C++ library with similar APIs.
> >After all, it is much easier to translate their Java code to C++ than
>it
> >is to grok the MS Office file format :).
> >
> >Furthermore, since a lot of the POI code is automatically generated
>with
> >XSLT transforms, it should be easy to adapt the stylesheets to target
>C++
> >as well as Java.
> >
> >If you're interested in HDF, I'd suggest signing up for the Apache POI
> >devel mailing list.  If you're interested in the C++ port in
>particular,
> >I'll be happy to provide more details.
> >
> >-TJ
> >
> >On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Corby Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > P.S.: What is the state of wv2.  Do you need any help?
> >
> >
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