import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
/**
- * This class handles the processing of a sheet#.xml
+ * This class handles the streaming processing of a sheet#.xml
* sheet part of a XSSF .xlsx file, and generates
* row and cell events for it.
+ *
+ * This allows to build functionality which reads huge files
+ * without needing large amounts of main memory.
+ *
+ * See {@link SheetContentsHandler} for the interface that
+ * you need to implement for reading information from a file.
*/
public class XSSFSheetXMLHandler extends DefaultHandler {
private static final POILogger logger = POILogFactory.getLogger(XSSFSheetXMLHandler.class);
}
/**
- * You need to implement this to handle the results
- * of the sheet parsing.
+ * This interface allows to provide callbacks when reading
+ * a sheet in streaming mode.
+ *
+ * The XSLX file is usually read via {@link XSSFReader}.
+ *
+ * By implementing the methods, you can process arbitrarily
+ * large files without exhausting main memory.
*/
public interface SheetContentsHandler {
/** A row with the (zero based) row number has started */