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Subject: Re: Apache Velocity for Producing Document
From: Antoine Levy Lambert <antoine@gmx.de>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:03:55 -0400
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Hi,

I made a google search and found some articles on Stack Overflow : [1] =
and this one : [2]

(this one mentions another non Apache java framework called docx4j ).[3]

What about investing some time doing some quick prototypes to get a =
feeling of the options ?

Neither poi nor docx4j seem to be templating engines but you can use =
them to create documents programatically and you might be able to define =
your own rules for generating documents from templates.

Antoine

[1] =
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16264247/create-document-from-dotx-temp=
late-with-apache-poi-hwpf
[2] =
http://www.smartjava.org/content/create-complex-word-docx-documents-progra=
matically-docx4j
[3] http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j

On Jul 17, 2015, at 6:47 PM, velocityuser user =
<apachevelocityuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Antoine for the quick response.
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> I have requirements such as conditional data population and nested =
templates.
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> Does POI support these two requirements?
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> Also I need to know if the Template can handle any kind of start /  =
end tag or it need to have a standard format?
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> Thanks in advance for your help.
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Antoine Levy Lambert <antoine@gmx.de> =
wrote:
> Hi,
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> The last release of velocity was on the 29th of November 2010. [1]
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> I would look at Apache POI instead [2]
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> This project has most likely a user list where you can discuss your =
use case.
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> Antoine
> [1] http://velocity.apache.org
> [2] http://poi.apache.org
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> On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:43 PM, velocityuser user =
<apachevelocityuser@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a requirement where I need to read a work template such as =
*.dot /
> > *.dotx, merge the template with data and generate a word document in =
*.doc
> > / *.docx.
> >
> > I read Velocity can be used to do this but I can not find any =
example
> > anywhere.
> >
> > Appreciate if I get some guidance on this problem.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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