From 4926b8c44a8f82a4f8918ab957330f274e282921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Burch Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:02:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note to the hssf/xssf pages on memory of usermodel vs eventusermodel, and hssf vs xssf git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@800388 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/documentation/content/xdocs/spreadsheet/index.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/spreadsheet/index.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/spreadsheet/index.xml index 2a67bfca9..a9f025e4e 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/spreadsheet/index.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/spreadsheet/index.xml @@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ If you're modifying spreadsheet data then use the usermodel api. You can also generate spreadsheets this way.

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+ Note that the usermodel system has a higher memory footprint than + the low level eventusermodel, but have the major advantage of being + much simpler to work with. Also please be aware that as the new + XSSF supported Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx) files are XML based, + the memory footprint for processing them is higher than for the + older HSSF supported (.xls) binary files. +

Compatibility of POI-generated .xlsx files with MS Office 2008 for Mac SP2