Re: Beagle roadmap.

[Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:03 -0400, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Yoyo,
> 
> Are you writing these parsers from scratch or using the Poi.Net C#
> library that already exists to support them?

I don't know what clahey is using to write these parsers, however, for
Poi.Net i don't see any sort of updates after:
http://www.apache.org/~avik/dist/poi-2.5.1-dev-20040708.dll

If Poi.Net is maintained well and active in development and supports
good amount MS Office document formats (primarily doc, xls and ppt),
then there is no issues in using it.

AFAIK, even the Java version of POI doesn't have support for PPTs
(correct me if I am wrong.).

With gsf-sharp, we get the basic streams out of MS OLE2 documents.  And
beagle just requires

	* texts and its attributes like bold, italic, underline (font size???)

and no visual/rendering stuffs.  Comparitively writing parsers for
beagle will be simpler.


V. Varadhan.