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Peter K - 16 Oct 2007 10:50 GMT

Hi

I would like some pointers to representing a "rich text" document as an
object.

Does java have inbuilt classes for rich text representation?

I am not building any gui code, but I am investigating possibilities for
transporting complex data (text + inline images) over a web-service. The
data is read from a Notes database, and I have it on good authority that
Notes can supply data in some sort of rich text format (therefore I am
looking at how to represent rich text as a java object).

So if anyone also has more info on Notes, or generally on good ways of
representing and transporting text and related images via a webservice I
would be grateful.

Thanks,
Peter

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Steve W. Jackson - 16 Oct 2007 15:26 GMT

> Hi
>
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> Thanks,
> Peter

Java has the javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit which allows editing of
RTF (Rich Text Format) documents. But it's woefully out of date, unless
they've done some serious work in Java 6 that I'm not yet using. So if
you were working on a GUI for editing and manipulating RTF, you'd find
that many newer features (including tables and images) aren't supported
readily.

That said, RTF is little more than a markup language of sorts. So if
you've got a rich text document already created that includes these
things, it should essentially just be a string of text including
content, the special markup features of RTF, etc. And you should have
no difficulty passing such text over a Web Service.

= Steve =

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