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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
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+
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+-->
+<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V2.0//EN" "document-v20.dtd">
+
+<document>
+  <header>
+    <title>Apache POI™ - Javadocs</title>
+    <authors>
+      <person id="PD" name="POI Developers" email="dev@poi.apache.org" />
+    </authors>
+  </header>
+
+  <body>
+    <section><title>Apache POI Javadocs</title>
+  <p>
+   The Javadocs for the latest (development) version of Apache POI
+   can be <a href="dev/index.html">accessed online here</a>, or build
+   from a <a href="site:git">source code checkout</a>
+   by running the <em>javadocs</em> Ant task. The
+   <a href="dev/index.html">latest (development) Javadocs</a> are generally
+   updated every few weeks, so may lag the most recent development slightly.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+   For recent releases, the Javadocs for the latest stable release
+   each the family can also be browsed online:
+  </p>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="ext:apidocs/v50">Apache POI 5.0.x Javadocs</a></li>
+    <li><a href="ext:apidocs/v41">Apache POI 4.1.x Javadocs</a></li>
+    <li><a href="ext:apidocs/v40">Apache POI 4.0.x Javadocs</a></li>
+    <li><a href="ext:apidocs/v317">Apache POI 3.17 Javadocs</a></li>
+  </ul>
+
+  <section><title>Older Releases</title>
+  <p>
+    For every release of Apache POI, the specific Javadocs for that
+    version are available with the release.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    Maven / Gradle / IDE users are able to fetch the javadocs for each
+    of the Apache POI jars from Maven Central (or your preferred Maven
+    mirror). These are made available with the <em>javadoc</em> classifier,
+    e.g. <em>group: 'org.apache.poi', name: 'poi', version: '4.1.1',
+           classifier: 'javadoc'</em>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    If you have downloaded the <em>binary (bin)</em> release, then you
+    can find the Javadocs within the download in the <em>/docs/apidocs/</em>
+    folder.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    If you have downloaded the <em>source (src)</em> release, then you
+    need to build your own copy. Run the <em>javadocs</em> ant task
+    to have the Javadocs built, the build will tell you the output
+    directory at the end (it varies slightly between POI versions).
+  </p>
+  </section>
+</section>
+</body>
+  <footer>
+    <legal>
+      Copyright (c) @year@ The Apache Software Foundation All rights reserved.
+      <br />
+      Apache POI, POI, Apache, the Apache feather logo, and the Apache
+      POI project logo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.
+    </legal>
+  </footer>
+</document>