How to present a content of a documeent as a String?

[thelordoftherings]

Hello,

I have a certain byte array - byte[] b - that contains a content I've read from a certain word file.
I would like to present this content as a String, is it possible to do it?

 

[sedj]

Well you can construct a String from a byte[] arary like this :

String s = new String(byteData);

But if the byte data is actually a MS Word document, then it won't actually be sensible/readable data.

You need a programme that understands MS formats (like Word, or OpenOffice).

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[thelordoftherings]

Is there an open source code that can "Understand" word?
I am familiar with the POI project of apache but it is in it's early stages in Word...

 

[thelordoftherings]

Know what? Let's do it more easy (I think): Assume these are rtf files, how can I do it now?

 

[sedj]

Same as before - yes you can convert them to a String, but the data will be unintelligable.

>>> Is there an open source code that can "Understand" word?
The only one I know of is POI.

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[thelordoftherings]

But Java has packages for reading rtf... Can't I use it?

 

[sedj]

Well yes, but you cannot just "convert a byte[] to a String" ... but if you want to play around with the javax.swing.text.rtf package, then have a go !

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[thelordoftherings]

But it is just for Swing, I am using it for the Web environment...

 

[sedj]

You may still be able to use the API - Swing packages can be used in headless mode ...

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[thelordoftherings]

Do u have by any chance an example...?

 

[thelordoftherings]

To be more specific: How do I create an idependant Document object (not related to a Swing component) that contains the rtf text?

 

[sedj]

Sorry ... no idea ... guess you'll have to have a bit of trial and error

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[Diancecht]

Maybe a FO transformation can help

http://rtf2fo.com/javadoc/ru/novosoft/dc/rtf2fo/RTF2FO.html

Cheers,
Dian

 

[thelordoftherings]

10X but this Object converts to org.w3c.dom.Document, I need javax.swing.text.Documet...

 

[Diancecht]

You didn't specify

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=461497&messageID=2894775

Cheers,
Dian

 

[thelordoftherings]

Again, the document here is taken from JEditorPane which is a swing object. As I specified above, I am writing this code for the web environment (J2EE), therefore I need an Independant Document object and not one which is bound to a swing object.

Roy

 

[thelordoftherings]

Found the solution:

RTFEditorKit rtf = new RTFEditorKit();
javax.swing.text.Document doc = rtf.createDefaultDocument();

 

[Diancecht]

Oh, I see, so I imagine you asked Sun to move RTFEditor kit from swing packages ...

Cheers,
Dian

 

[thelordoftherings]

Nop...

 

[thelordoftherings]

As sedj suggested, Swing packages can be used in headless mode