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  <header>
    <title>Overview</title>
    <authors>
      <person id="AO" name="Andrew C. Oliver" email="acoliver@apache.org"/>
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    <section><title>What is it?</title>
      <p>The POI project is the master project for developing pure
        Java ports of file formats based on Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound
        Document Format.  OLE 2 Compound Document Format is used by
        Microsoft Office Documents, as well as by programs using MFC
        property sets to serialize their document objects.
      </p>
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    <section><title>Sub-Projects</title>
      <p>
        There following are ports, packages or components contained in the POI project.
      </p>
      <section><title>POIFS</title>
        <p>
          <link href="poifs/index.html">POIFS</link> is the set of APIs 
          for reading and writing OLE 2 Compound Document Formats using (only) Java.
        </p> 
      </section>
      
      <section><title>HSSF</title>
        <p>
          <link href="hssf/index.html">HSSF</link> is the set of APIs 
 	  for reading and writing Microsoft Excel 97(-XP) spreadsheet using (only) Java.
        </p>
      </section>

      <section><title>HWPF</title>
        <p>
          <link href="hwpf/index.html">HWPF</link>  is the set of APIs                   
          for reading and writing Microsoft Word 97(-XP) spreadsheet using (only) Java.
        </p>
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      <section><title>HPSF</title>
        <p>
          <link href="hpsf/index.html">HPSF</link> is the set of APIs 
          for reading property sets using (only) Java.
        </p> 
      </section>

      <section><title>POI-Utils</title>
        <p>
          <link href="utils/index.html">POI-Utils</link> are general purpose artifacts
	  from POI development that have not yet been implemented elsewhere.  We're 
          always looking to donate these and maintain them as part of a general library
          used in another project.  These are things we need to complete our mission but
          are generally outside of it.  
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