POI-Using Project: The Wordinator

Dominik Stadler

2018-08-18 06:55:10 UTC

Hi Eliot,

thanks for the link and description, this sounds like a great project and a
nice usage of Apache POI in a project.

Also good to see the XWPF stuff being used, it shows which areas still lack
the most. Thanks also for your continued patches, this helps a lot to
improve this area.

I have now also listed your project at
http://poi.apache.org/related-projects.html to include it in the list of
projects that use POI in some way.

Dominik.

Post by Eliot Kimber
The project that is driving my work on the XWPF API is a new project I've
https://github.com/drmacro/wordinator
This is driven by a Publishing client that needs to generate high-quality
DOCX files from their content for access from the Web. Their content is
relatively complex, with things like footnotes, complex tables, nested
lists, and so on.
The Wordinator abstracts the general problem of mapping from XML (or any
similar structured content--with XSLT 3 you could just as easily process
JSON content or some other format) to word processing data through a
relatively simple XML structure, the Simple Word Processing Markup Language
(SWPX), which is basically OOXML simplified way down.
You use XSLT to do the XML-to-SWPX mapping and that XSLT is designed to be
relatively easy to adapt while handling the annoying details of going from
structured content to paragraphs and runs. The Wordinator then uses POI to
generate DOCX files through a relatively simple Java application that reads
the SWPX XML.
The code is still pretty fresh as I'm focused on my paying client's
requirements, but I've started on a generic HTML5-to-SWPX transform. Once I
have that working I plan to then adapt it to the DITA world using HTML5
produced by the DITA Open Toolkit.
Cheers,
Eliot
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Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com
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