On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:06:31 -0500 Kevin Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> anyway, I'm still a bit confused about POI even after reading the docs. the
> first thing
> I wanted to do was to just see what these files look like - so I figured
> that I could
> run the poibrowser and point it at a file - but apparently that doesn't work.
> so obviously I'm doing something wrong or have misunderstood the purpose of
> poi and
> poibrowser.
Kevin,
it would be helpfiul if you could explain in detail what you mean by "apparently that doesn't work". Anyway, poibrowser is specialized on displaying property set streams: the type of data POI's HPSF component deals with. It displays the first few bytes of any other file it finds in the POI filesystem but does not attempt to make anything useful out of those bytes.
Best regards Rainer Klute
Rainer, thanks for the insight.
I guess then my perspective is in error. What I'm attempting to do is to "read" a powerpoint file to the level where I can access the "text" inside each slide, and then I want to do some analysis (regex comparison to two index lists) and then generate output (not necessarily in powerpoint format - actually text would be just fine).
Let me simplify my question: can I "run" poibrowser in a MS Win2K environment (ie. like an application) or is this entire poi codebase intended to be called via Java code and I have to write my own readers/writers etc etc.
Kevin
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