From f05e43b6f768fa2faeb094ec9b3b9b1c18c862ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Burch Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:13:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add information of EventBasedExcelExtractor to the documentation git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk@647577 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/documentation/content/xdocs/text-extraction.xml | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/text-extraction.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/text-extraction.xml index 397aa1b39d..d71a0bf10c 100644 --- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/text-extraction.xml +++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/text-extraction.xml @@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ Those using POI 3.5 can also use org.apache.poi.xssf.extractor.XSSFExcelExtractor, to perform a similar task for .xlsx files.

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In addition, there is a second text extractor for .xls files, + org.apache.poi.hssf.extractor.EventBasedExcelExtractor. This + is based on the streaming EventUserModel code, and will generally + deliver a lower memory footprint for extraction. However, it will + have problems correctly outputting more complex formulas, as it + works with records as they pass, and so doesn't have access to all + parts of complex and shared formulas.

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