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<header>
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<title>HPSF (Horrible Property Set Format)</title>
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<subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="Rainer Klute" email="klute@apache.org"/>
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</authors>
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</header>
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<body>
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<section><title>Overview</title>
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<p>Microsoft applications like "Word", "Excel" or "Powerpoint" let the user
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describe his document by properties like "title", "category" and so on. The
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application itself adds further information: last author, creation date
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etc. These document properties are stored in so-called <strong>property set
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streams</strong>. A property set stream is a separate document within a
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<link href="../poifs/index.html">POI filesystem</link>. We'll call property
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set streams mostly just "property sets". HPSF is POI's pure-Java
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implementation to read (and in future to write) property sets.</p>
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<p>The <link href="how-to.html">HPSF HOWTO</link> describes what a Java
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application should do to read a property set using HPSF and to retrieve the
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information it needs.</p>
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<p>HPSF supports OLE2 property set streams in general, and is not limited to
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the special case of document properties in the Microsoft Office files
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mentioned above. The <link href="internals.html">HPSF description</link>
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describes the internal structure of property set streams. A separate
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document explains the internal of <link href="thumbnails.html">thumbnail
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images</link>.</p>
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</section>
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</body>
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</document>
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