On Dec 26, 2007 7:19 PM, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Niall -
>
> When you say it includes the sheet name, you mean the name of each sheet
> (tab) in the Excel file, right?
Yes
> Does it come out as bare text, or is it
> encoded in a way that can be parsed (e.g. "{[Sheet: MySheet1]}")? Or is
> this configurable?
Just plain text and not configurable ATM.
> We have a need to read Excel files with more structure than the usual
> unstructured text document. At minimum, it would be great to be able to be
> able to know where one sheet ends and the next begins. Is this something
> that would be appropriate to support, or does that go beyond the generic
> unstructured text parsing mission of Tika?
I'm leave that for the Tika devs to comment on.
> Also, based on your knowledge of
> Poi (I have none), how difficult is that to implement? I may need to do it
> myself.
Very easy. Tika has two excel parsers now the original one
(ExcelParser) uses the easier/simpler POI API and the one I wrote
(ExcelEventParser) has a smaller memory footprint, but uses the
slightly more complex POI Event API. I believe either of them could be
easily adapted to your needs though.
Niall
> Thanks much,
> Keith
>
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> JIRA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Niall Pemberton commented on TIKA-105:
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> >
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> > The only functional difference between this implementation and ExcelParser
> > is that it also writes out the sheet name to the stream this could easily
> > be added with a one line change to ExcelParser though.
> >
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