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+/* ====================================================================
+ Copyright 2002-2004 Apache Software Foundation
+
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+==================================================================== */
+
+package org.apache.poi.hslf.dev;
+
+import org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian;
+import org.apache.poi.hslf.record.RecordTypes;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.*;
+import java.io.*;
+
+/**
+ * Utility class which dumps raw contents of a ppt file into XML format
+ *
+ * @author Yegor Kozlov
+ */
+
+public class PPTXMLDump {
+ public static final int HEADER_SIZE = 8; //size of the record header
+ public static final int PICT_HEADER_SIZE = 25; //size of the picture header
+ public final static String PPDOC_ENTRY = "PowerPoint Document";
+ public final static String PICTURES_ENTRY = "Pictures";
+ public static String CR = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+
+ protected Writer out;
+ protected byte[] docstream;
+ protected byte[] pictstream;
+ protected boolean hexHeader = true;
+
+ public PPTXMLDump(File ppt) throws IOException {
+ FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(ppt);
+ POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(fis);
+ fis.close();
+
+ //read the document entry from OLE file system
+ DocumentEntry entry = (DocumentEntry)fs.getRoot().getEntry(PPDOC_ENTRY);
+ docstream = new byte[entry.getSize()];
+ DocumentInputStream is = fs.createDocumentInputStream(PPDOC_ENTRY);
+ is.read(docstream);
+
+ try {
+ entry = (DocumentEntry)fs.getRoot().getEntry(PICTURES_ENTRY);
+ pictstream = new byte[entry.getSize()];
+ is = fs.createDocumentInputStream(PICTURES_ENTRY);
+ is.read(pictstream);
+ } catch(FileNotFoundException e){
+ //silently catch errors if the presentation does not contain pictures
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Dump the structure of the supplied PPT file into XML
+ * @param out Writer to write out
+ * @throws java.io.IOException
+ */
+ public void dump(Writer out) throws IOException {
+ this.out = out;
+
+ int padding = 0;
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ padding++;
+ if (pictstream != null){
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ dumpPictures(pictstream, padding);
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ }
+ //dump the structure of the powerpoint document
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ padding++;
+ dump(docstream, 0, docstream.length, padding);
+ padding--;
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ padding--;
+ write(out, "", padding);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Dump a part of the document stream into XML
+ * @param data PPT binary data
+ * @param offset offset from the beginning of the document
+ * @param length of the document
+ * @param padding used for formatting results
+ * @throws java.io.IOException
+ */
+ public void dump(byte[] data, int offset, int length, int padding) throws IOException {
+ int pos = offset;
+ while (pos <= (offset + length - HEADER_SIZE)){
+ if (pos < 0) break;
+
+ //read record header
+ int info = LittleEndian.getUShort(data, pos);
+ pos += LittleEndian.SHORT_SIZE;
+ int type = LittleEndian.getUShort(data, pos);
+ pos += LittleEndian.SHORT_SIZE;
+ int size = (int)LittleEndian.getUInt(data, pos);
+ pos += LittleEndian.INT_SIZE;
+
+ //get name of the record by type
+ String recname = RecordTypes.recordName(type);
+ write(out, "<"+recname + " info=\""+info+"\" type=\""+type+"\" size=\""+size+"\" offset=\""+(pos-8)+"\"", padding);
+ if (hexHeader){
+ out.write(" header=\"");
+ dump(out, data, pos-8, 8, 0, false);
+ out.write("\"");
+ }
+ out.write(">" + CR);
+ padding++;
+ //this check works both for Escher and PowerPoint records
+ boolean isContainer = (info & 0x000F) == 0x000F;
+ if (isContainer) {
+ //continue to dump child records
+ dump(data, pos, size, padding);
+ } else {
+ //dump first 100 bytes of the atom data
+ dump(out, data, pos, Math.min(size, 100), padding, true);
+ }
+ padding--;
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+
+ pos += size;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Dumps the Pictures OLE stream into XML.
+ *
+ * @param data from the Pictures OLE data stream
+ * @param padding
+ * @throws java.io.IOException
+ */
+ public void dumpPictures(byte[] data, int padding) throws IOException {
+ int pos = 0;
+ while (pos < data.length) {
+ byte[] header = new byte[PICT_HEADER_SIZE];
+
+ System.arraycopy(data, pos, header, 0, header.length);
+ int size = LittleEndian.getInt(header, 4) - 17;
+ byte[] pictdata = new byte[size];
+ System.arraycopy(data, pos + PICT_HEADER_SIZE, pictdata, 0, pictdata.length);
+ pos += PICT_HEADER_SIZE + size;
+
+ padding++;
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ padding++;
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ dump(out, header, 0, header.length, padding, true);
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ dump(out, pictdata, 0, Math.min(pictdata.length, 100), padding, true);
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ padding--;
+ write(out, "" + CR, padding);
+ padding--;
+
+ }
+ }
+
+ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+ if (args.length == 0){
+ System.out.println(
+ "Usage: PPTXMLDump (options) pptfile\n" +
+ "Where options include:\n" +
+ " -f write output to .xml file in the current directory"
+ );
+ return;
+ }
+ boolean outFile = false;
+ for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++){
+
+ if (args[i].startsWith("-")) {
+ if ("-f".equals(args[i])){
+ //write ouput to a file
+ outFile = true;
+ }
+ } else {
+ File ppt = new File(args[i]);
+ PPTXMLDump dump = new PPTXMLDump(ppt);
+ System.out.println("Dumping " + args[i]);
+
+ if (outFile){
+ FileWriter out = new FileWriter(ppt.getName() + ".xml");
+ dump.dump(out);
+ out.close();
+ } else {
+ StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
+ dump.dump(out);
+ System.out.println(out.toString());
+ }
+ }
+
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ /**
+ * write a string to out with the specified padding
+ */
+ private static void write(Writer out, String str, int padding) throws IOException {
+ for (int i = 0; i < padding; i++) out.write(" ");
+ out.write(str);
+ }
+
+ private String getPictureType(byte[] header){
+ String type;
+ int meta = LittleEndian.getUShort(header, 0);
+
+ switch(meta){
+ case 0x46A0: type = "jpeg"; break;
+ case 0x2160: type = "wmf"; break;
+ case 0x6E00: type = "png"; break;
+ default: type = "unknown"; break;
+ }
+ return type;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * dump binary data to out with the specified padding
+ */
+ private static void dump(Writer out, byte[] data, int offset, int length, int padding, boolean nl) throws IOException {
+ int linesize = 25;
+ for (int i = 0; i < padding; i++) out.write(" ");
+ int i;
+ for (i = offset; i < (offset + length); i++) {
+ int c = data[i];
+ out.write((char) hexval[(c & 0xF0) >> 4]);
+ out.write((char) hexval[(c & 0x0F) >> 0]);
+ out.write(' ');
+ if((i+1-offset) % linesize == 0 && i != (offset + length-1)) {
+ out.write(CR);
+ for (int j = 0; j < padding; j++) out.write(" ");
+ }
+ }
+ if(nl && length > 0)out.write(CR);
+ }
+
+ private static final byte hexval[] =
+ {(byte) '0', (byte) '1', (byte) '2', (byte) '3',
+ (byte) '4', (byte) '5', (byte) '6', (byte) '7',
+ (byte) '8', (byte) '9', (byte) 'A', (byte) 'B',
+ (byte) 'C', (byte) 'D', (byte) 'E', (byte) 'F'};
+
+}