Author: nick Date: Wed Mar 19 04:03:42 2008 New Revision: 638785 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=638785&view=rev Log: Reformat index page slightly, and add some info on ooxml support being in progress, but not yet ready
Modified: poi/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml Modified: poi/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml?rev=638785&r1=638784&r2=638785&view=diff ============================================================================== --- poi/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml (original) +++ poi/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml Wed Mar 19 04:03:42 2008 @@ -31,51 +31,60 @@ </header> <body> - <section><title>February 06 2008 - POI 3.0.2 Released</title> + <section><title>POI 3.0.2 Released</title> <p>The POI team is pleased to announce POI 3.0.2, the latest release of Apache POI. There have been many important bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release and a lot of new features. A full list of changes is available in <link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">download</link> the source and binaries from your <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">local mirror</link>. - </p> - <p> - The release is also available from the central Maven repository under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL". - </p> - </section> - - <section><title>POI 3.0.1 Release</title> - <p>The latest release of Apache POI (formerly Apache Jakarta POI), - version 3.0.1, has now been released. It contains a mixture of - new features and bug fixes, compared to 3.0. A full list of changes - is available in - <link href="./changes.html">the changelog</link>, and - <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">download</link> - the source and binaries from your - <link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/release/">local mirror</link>.</p> + </p> + <p> + The release is also available from the central Maven repository + under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.0.2-FINAL". + </p> <p>We would also like to confirm that verions 3.0 and 3.0.1 of Apache POI do <em>not</em> contain any viruses. Users of broken virus checkers which do detect a 94 byte file, sci_cec.db, as containing one are advised to contact their vendor for a fix.</p> - </section> + </section> + <section><title>Office Open XML Support</title> + <p>We are currently working to support the new Office Open XML + file formats, such as XLSX and PPTX, which were introduced in + Office 2007.</p> + <p>Support for these is currently only available in an svn branch, + but we hope to have a full release including it by the summer. + People interested should follow the + <link href="mailinglists.html">dev list</link> to track progress.</p> + </section> <section><title>Purpose</title> <p> The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats - based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can - read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon, you'll be able to read and write - Word files using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java Word solution. - However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE 2 Compound Document formats and welcome - others to participate. + based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. + In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon, + you'll be able to read and write Word, PowerPoint and Visio files + using Java. POI is your Java Excel solution as well as your Java + Word solution. However, we have a complete API for porting other OLE + 2 Compound Document formats, and welcome others to participate. </p> <p> OLE 2 Compound Document Format based files include most Microsoft Office - files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file formats. + files such as XLS and DOC as well as MFC serialization API based file + formats. + </p> + <p> + At this time, none of our releases support the new Office Open XML + file formats, such as .xlsx or .docx. Work to support these is in + progress, and people interested should follow the + <link href="mailinglists.html">dev list</link>. We expect this + support to make it into a full release by the summer. </p> <p> - As a general policy we try to collaborate as much as possible with other projects to - provide this functionality. Examples include: <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</link> for + As a general policy, we try to collaborate as much as possible + with other projects to provide this functionality. Examples + include: <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</link> for which there are serializers for HSSF; <link href="http://www.openoffice.org">Open Office.org</link> with whom we collaborate in documenting the XLS format; and <link href="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</link> @@ -96,8 +105,8 @@ we say that POIFS is the most complete and correct implementation of this file format to date! </p> <p> - You'd use HSSF if you needed to read or write an Excel file using Java (XLS). You can also read and modify - spreadsheets using this API, although right now writing is more mature. + You'd use HSSF if you needed to read, write or modify an Excel file + using Java (XLS). </p> </section> </section> @@ -114,8 +123,11 @@ definition. Please see <link href="./poifs/index.html">the POIFS project page</link> for more information.</p> </section> <section><title>HSSF for Excel Documents</title> - <p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write - capability. Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project page</link> for more information.</p> + <p>HSSF is our port of the Microsoft Excel 97(-2003) file + format (BIFF8) to pure Java. It supports read and write + capability. (Support for Excel 2007 .xlsx files is in progress). + Please see <link href="./hssf/index.html">the HSSF project + page</link> for more information.</p> </section> <section><title>HWPF for Word Documents</title> <p>HWPF is our port of the Microsoft Word 97 file format to pure --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]