Re: [Openxml4j-devs] Common API to Apache POI?

[Julien C. <ju...@wy...>]

Hi Nick,
Sorry for the delay, I have to configure my mail client in order not to
have mails from the mailing list flagged as spam ;-)

Yes, it could be interested to discuss more thoroughly about that point
;-) Is it possible for you to send more details about your idea
concerning these common method signatures ?

Regards,

Julien

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Hi Guys

I'm involved in Apache Jakarta's POI project, which is a pure java file=20
format reader for the OLE2 office documents. A few of out users are=20
starting to want to read the Office XML file formats, and openxml4j is=20
what most are going with.

I was wondering if it might be worth us trying to come up with some
common=20
method signatures that we could both implement, to make it easaier for
our=20
users to switch between using OLE2 and OOXML documents in their code.=20
While the file formats are very different, the entities stored within=20
have a lot in common, so it initially seems there might be similar APIs=20
needed for both.

What do you think?

Nick