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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.1//EN" "../dtd/document-v11.dtd">
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<document>
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<header>
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<title>HSSF</title>
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<subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
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<authors>
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<person name="Andrew C. Oliver" email="acoliver@apache.org"/>
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<person name="Nicola Ken Barozzi" email="barozzi@nicolaken.com"/>
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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>HSSF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Excel '97(-2002) file format.</p>
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<p>HSSF provides a way to read spreadsheets create, modify, read and write XLS spreadsheets
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It provides:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>low level structures for those with special needs</li>
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<li>an eventmodel api for efficient read-only access</li>
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<li>a full usermodel api for creating, reading and modifying XLS files</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Truth be told there is probably a better way to generate your spreadsheet
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generation (yet you'll still be using HSSF indirectly). At the time of
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this writing we're in the process of moving the HSSF Serializer over to
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the <link href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Apache Cocoon
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Project</link>. With Cocoon you can serialize any XML datasource (of
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which might be a ESQL page outputting in SQL for instance) by simply
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applying the stylesheet and designating the serializer.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you're merely reading spreadsheet data, then use the eventmodel api
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in the org.apache.poi.hssf.eventmodel package.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you're modifying spreadsheet data then use the usermodel api. You
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can also generate spreadsheets this way, but using Cocoon (which will do
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it this way indirectly) is the best way...we promise.
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</p>
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</section>
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</body>
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</document>
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