On 10/16/07, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ...Tika needs to do MIME type and encoding detection for the purpose of
> parsing.  I'd like to suggest elevating those services to be explicitly
> stated services of Tika, so that we can increase Tika's usefulness to its
> users...

100% agreed - I also suggested a while ago to make these separate
Maven modules that build their own jars (so that people can use just
those parts of Tika if they want), but IIRC people were against that.

> ...In addition, if these could all be exposed in a utility class that allowed
> instantiation (1), then an instance of that utility class could be dropped
> into a JEXL or other context for use in expressions...

Seems to make sense, I don't see a problem with that.

-Bertrand

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