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  <title>Jakarta POI - HWPF -Java APIs with XML manipulate MS-Word</title>
  <subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
  <authors>
   <person name="Nicola Ken Barozzi" email="barozzi@nicolaken.com"/>
   <person name="Andrew C. Oliver" email="acoliver@apache.org"/>
   <person name="Ryan Ackley" email="sackley@apache.org"/>
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 <section><title>Overview</title>

  <p>HWPF is the name of OUR port of the Microsoft Word 97(-2002) file format to
     pure Java.</p>
  <p>HWPF is still in early development. It is in the
     <link href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-poi/src/scratchpad/">scratchpad section of the
     CVS.</link> Source code in the <em>org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor</em> tree is
     legacy code. Source in the <em>org.apache.poi.hwpf.model</em>
     tree is the old legacy code refactored into an object model. Check the How-To
     page for detailed examples on using HWPF.
  </p>
  <p>
     We are looking for developers!!! If you are interested in helping with HWPF
     familiarize yourself with the source code and just start coding. Make sure
     you read the guidelines for <link href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/getinvolved/index.html">
     getting involved</link></p>
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