diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml index 03c359ffc..cc578afec 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/hssf/how-to.xml @@ -454,6 +454,15 @@ it your HSSFListener. Then, register the MissingRecordAwareHSSFListener to the event model, and start that as normal.
+One example use for this API is to write a CSV outputter, which always
+outputs a minimum number of columns, even where the file doesn't contain
+some of the rows or cells. It can be found at
+/src/scratchpad/examples/src/org/apache/poi/hssf/eventusermodel/examples/XLS2CSVmra.java
,
+and may be called on the command line, or from within your own code.
+The latest version is always available from
+subversion.
+
This code is currently in the scratchpad section, so you will either need to include the scratchpad jar on your classpath, or build from a subversion checkout.