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Although the vision - has not changed and this document is certainly not out of date and - the vision has not changed, the structure of the project has - changed a bit. We're not going to change the vision document to - reflect this (however proper that may be) because it would only - involve deletion. There is no purpose in providing less - information provided we give clarification. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - This document was created before the POI components for - <a href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Apache Cocoon</a> - were accepted into the Cocoon project itself. It was also - written before POI was accepted into Jakarta. So while the - vision hasn't changed some of the components are actually now - part of other projects. We'll still be working on them on the - same timeline roughly (minus the overhead of coordination with - other groups), but they are no longer technically part of the - POI project itself. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>1. Introduction</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>1.1 Purpose of this document</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The purpose of this document is to - collect, analyze and define high-level requirements, user needs, - and features of the second release of the POI project software. - The POI project currently consists of the following components: - the HSSF Serializer, the HSSF library and the POIFS library. - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - The HSSF Serializer is a set of Java classes whose main - class supports the Serializer interface from the Cocoon - 2 project and outputs the serialized data in a format - compatible with the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel - '97. - </li> - -<li> - The HSSF library is a set of classes for reading and - writing Microsoft Excel 97 file format using pure Java. - </li> - -<li> - The POIFS library is a set of classes for reading and - writing Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using - pure Java. - </li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify">By the completion of this release cycle the POI project will also - include the HSSF Generator and the HDF library. - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>The HSSF Generator will be responsible for using HSSF to read - in the XLS (Excel 97) file format and create SAX events. The HSSF - Generator will support the applicable interfaces specified by the - Apache Cocoon 2 project. - </li> - -<li>The HDF library will provide a set of high level interfaces - for reading and writing Microsoft Word 97 file format using pure - Java.</li> - -</ul> - - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - - - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>1.2 Project Overview</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The first release of the POI project - was an astounding success. This release seeks to build on that - success by: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - Refactoring POIFS into imput and - output classes as well as an event-driven API for reading. - </li> - -<li> - Refactor HSSF for greater - performance as well as an event-driven API for reading - </li> - -<li> - Extend HSSF by adding the ability to read and write formulas. - </li> - -<li> - Extend HSSF by adding the ability to read and write - user-defined styles. - </li> - -<li> - Create a Cocoon 2 Generator for HSSF using the same tags - as the HSSF Serializer. - </li> - -<li> - Create a new library (HDF) for reading and writing - Microsoft Word DOC format. - </li> - -<li> - Refactor the HSSFSerializer into a separate extensible - POIFSSerializer and HSSFSerializer - </li> - -<li> - Providing the create excel charts. (write only) - </li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2. User Description</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.1 User/Market Demographics</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - There are a number of enthusiastic - users of XML, UNIX and Java technology. Furthermore, the Microsoft - solution for outputting Office Document formats often involves - actually manipulating the software as an OLE Server. This method - provides extremely low performance, extremely high overhead and is - only capable of handing one document at a time. - </p> - -<ol> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the HSSF - Serializer portion of this project are developers writing reports or - data extracts in XML format. - </li> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the HSSF - library portion of this project is ourselves as we are developing - the HSSF serializer and anyone who needs to read and write Excel - spreadsheets in a non-XML Java environment, or who has specific - needs not addressed by the Serializer - </li> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the - POIFS library is ourselves as we are developing the HSSF and HDF - libraries and anyone wishing to provide other libraries for - reading/writing other file formats utilizing the OLE 2 Compound - Document Format in Java. - </li> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the HSSF - generator are developers who need to export Excel spreadsheets to - XML in a non-proprietary environment. - </li> - -<li> - Our intended audience for the HDF - library is ourselves, as we will be developing a HDF Serializer in a - later release, and anyone wishing to add .DOC file processing and - creation to their projects. - </li> - -</ol> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.2. User environment</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The users of this software shall be - developers in a Java environment on any operating system, or power - users who are capable of XML document generation/deployment. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.3. Key User Needs</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF library currently requires a - full object representation to be created before reading values. This - results in very high memory utilization. We need to reduce this - substantially for reading. It would be preferable to do this for - writing, but it may not be possible due to the constraints imposed by - the file format itself. Memory utilization during read is our top - user complaint. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - The POIFS library currently requires a - full object representation to be created before reading values. This - results in very high memory utilization. We need to reduce this - substantially for reading. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF library currently ignores - formula cells and identifies them as "UnknownRecord" at the - lower level of the API. We must provide a way to read and write - formulas. This is now the top requested feature. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF library currently does not support - charts. This is a key requirement of some users who wish to use HSSF - in a reporting engine. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF Serializer currently does not - provide serialization for cell styling. User's will want stylish - spreadsheets to result from their XML. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - There is currently no way to generate - the XML from an XLS that is consistent with the format used by the - HSSF Serializer. - </p> - -<p align="justify"> - There should be a way to read and write - the DOC file format using pure Java. - </p> - - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>2.4. Alternatives and Competition</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - Originally there weren't any decent <a href="../hssf/alternatives.html">alternatives</a> for reading or writing - to Excel. This has changed somewhat. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3. Project Overview</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.1. Project Perspective</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The produced code shall be licensed by - the Apache License as used by the Cocoon 2 project (APL 1.1) and - maintained on at <a href="http://poi.sourceforge.net/">http://poi.sourceforge.net</a> - and <a href="http://sourcefoge.net/projects/poi">http://sourcefoge.net/projects/poi</a>. - It is our hope to at some point integrate with the various Apache - projects (xml.apache.org and jakarta.apache.org), at which point we'd - turn the copyright over to them. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.2. Project Position Statement</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - For developers on a Java and/or XML - environment this project will provide all the tools necessary for - outputting XML data in the Microsoft Excel format. This project seeks - to make the use of Microsoft Windows based servers unnecessary for - file format considerations and to fully document the OLE 2 Compound - Document format. The project aims not only to provide the tools for - serializing XML to Excel and Word file formats and the tools for - writing to those file formats from Java, but also to provide the - tools for later projects to convert other OLE 2 Compound Document - formats to pure Java APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.3. Summary of Capabilities</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - HSSF Serializer for Apache Cocoon 2 - </p> - -<table width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0"> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - <b>Benefit</b> - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - <b>Supporting Features</b> - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Ability to serialize styles from XML spreadsheets. - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - HSSFSerialzier will support styles. - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Ability to read and write formulas in XLS files. - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - HSSF will support reading/writing formulas. - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Ability to output in MS Word on any platform using Java. - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - The project will develop an API that outputs in Word format - using pure Java. - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Enhance performance for reading and writing XLS files. - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - HSSF will undergo a number of performance enhancements. HSSF - will include a new event-based API for reading XLS files. POIFS - will support a new event-based API for reading OLE2 CDF files. - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - Ability to generate XML from XLS files - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - The project will develop an HSSF Generator. - </font></td> - -</tr> -<tr> - -<td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - The ability to generate charts - </font></td> - <td valign="top" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" align="left"><font size="-1" color="#000000"> - HSSF will provide low level support for chart records as well - as high level API support for generating charts. The ability - to read chart information will not initially be provided. - </font></td> - -</tr> -</table> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>3.4. Assumptions and Dependencies</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<ul> - -<li> - The HSSF Serializer and Generator - will support the Gnumeric 1.0 XML tag language. - </li> - -<li> - The HSSF Generator and HSSF - Serializer will be mutually validating. It should be possible to - have an XLS file created by the Serializer run through the Generator - and the output back through the Serializer (via the Cocoon pipeline) - and get the same file or a reasonable facimille (no one cares if it - differs by the order of the binary records in some minor but - non-visually recognizable manner). - </li> - -<li> - The HSSF Generator will run on any - Java 2 supporting platform with Apache Cocoon 2 installed along with - the HSSF and POIFS APIs. - </li> - -<li> - The HSSF Serializer will run on - any Java 2 supporting platform with Apache Cocoon 2 installed along - with the HSSF and POIFS APIs. - </li> - -<li> - The HDF API requires a Java 2 - implementation and the POIFS API. - </li> - -<li> - The HSSF API requires a Java 2 - implementation and the POIFS API. - </li> - -<li> - The POIFS API requires a Java 2 - implementation. - </li> - - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>4. Project Features</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - Enhancements to the POIFS API will - include: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - An event driven API for reading - POIFS Filesystems. - </li> - -<li> - A low-level API for - creating/manipulating POI filesystems. - </li> - -<li> - Code improvements supporting - greater separation between read and write structures. - </li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - Enhancements to the HSSF API will - include: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - An event driven API for reading - XLS files. - </li> - -<li> - Performance improvements. - </li> - -<li> - Formula support (read/write) - </li> - -<li> - Support for user-defined data - formats - </li> - -<li> - Better documentation of the file - format and structure. - </li> - -<li> - An API for creation of charts. - </li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF Generator will include: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - A set of classes supporting the - Cocoon 2 Generator interfaces providing a method for reading XLS - files and outputting SAX events. - </li> - -<li> - The same tag format used by the - HSSFSerializer in any given release. - </li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The HDF API will include: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li> - An event driven API for reading - DOC files. - </li> - -<li> - A set of high and low level APIs - for reading and writing DOC files. - </li> - -<li> - Documentation of the DOC file - format or enhancements to existing documentation. - </li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5. Other Product Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.1. Applicable Standards</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - All Java code will be 100% pure Java. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.2. System Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for the POIFS API are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for the the HSSF API are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -<li>POIFS API</li> - -</ul> - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for the the HDF API are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -<li>POIFS API</li> - -</ul> - - -<p align="justify"> - The minimum system requirements for the HSSF Serializer are: - </p> - -<ul> - -<li>64 Mbytes memory</li> - -<li>Java 2 environment</li> - -<li>Pentium or better processor (or equivalent on other platforms)</li> - -<li>Cocoon 2</li> - -<li>HSSF API</li> - -<li>POI API</li> - -</ul> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.3. Performance Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - All components must perform well enough - to be practical for use in a webserver environment (especially - the "killer trio": Cocoon2/Tomcat/Apache combo) - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>5.4. Environmental Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The software will run primarily in - developer environments. We should make some allowances for - not-highly-technical users to write XML documents for the HSSF - Serializer. All other components will assume intermediate Java 2 - knowledge. No XML knowledge will be required except for using the - HSSF Serializer. As much documentation as is practical shall be - required for all components as XML is relatively new, and the - concepts introduced for writing spreadsheets and to POI filesystems - will be brand new to Java and many Java developers. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6. Documentation Requirements</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.1 POI Filesystem</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The filesystem as read and written by - POI shall be fully documented and explained so that the average Java - developer can understand it. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.2. POI API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The POI API will be fully documented - through Javadoc. A walkthrough of using the high level POI API shall - be provided. No documentation outside of the Javadoc shall be - provided for the low-level POI APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.3. HSSF File Format</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF File Format as implemented by - the HSSF API will be fully documented. No documentation will be - provided for features that are not supported by HSSF API that are - supported by the Excel 97 File Format. Care will be taken not to - infringe on any "legal stuff". Additionally, we are - collaborating with the fine folks at OpenOffice.org on - *free* documentation of the format. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.4. HSSF API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF API will be documented by - javadoc. A walkthrough of using the high level HSSF API shall be - provided. No documentation outside of the Javadoc shall be provided - for the low level HSSF APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.5 HDF API</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HDF API will be documented by - javadoc. A walkthrough of using the high level HDF API shall be - provided. No documentation outside of the Javadoc shall be provided - for the low level HDF APIs. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.6 HSSF Serializer</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF Serializer will be documented - by javadoc. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.7 HSSF Generator</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The HSSF Generator will be documented - by javadoc. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="99%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+0"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>6.8 HSSF Serializer Tag language</b></font></font></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> -<br> - -<p align="justify"> - The XML tag language along with - function and usage shall be fully documented. Examples will be - provided as well. - </p> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> - -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> -<br> -<div align="right"> -<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0" width="100%"> -<tr> -<td bgcolor="#525D76"><font color="#ffffff" size="+1"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>7. 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