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From: Shamal Karunarathne <shamalk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:10:36 +0800
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Subject: Re: Need help in updating footer of Word Document
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There's HeaderStories in HWPF. You can extract headers and footers using
that. It's clean and clear. Tell me if you can't retrieve.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:06 PM, <madhusudan.reddy@accenture.com> wrote:

> HI Mark,
>
> Thanks for your help. I'm also trying to run your program but I'm unable to
> find the jars. I used POI-3.6 jar but I didn't find the required classes.
> Can you please provide the jar for below program? So that I can do some R &
> D on this issue.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Madhusudan Reddy
> JAVA | HDC | Accenture
> M. No: 9966601155
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MSB [mailto:markbrdsly@tiscali.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:54 PM
> To: user@poi.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Need help in updating footer of Word Document
>
>
> Only just begun to have a play with XWPF but it already seems much more
> 'solid' that HWPF as the latter is sorely in need of talented developers to
> help move it on (not too subtle hint there in case you missed it).
>
> However, the news on footers - and on headers for that matter - is still
> not
> too good. The XWPFDocument class defines a method that allows you to
> recover
> the documents associated XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy object. That object is
> responsibile for managing the documents headers and footers and it contains
> method that allow you to create a new footer, recover a reference to a
> footer and to then modify that. The only problem I have run in to yet is
> that I cannot get at this object the XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy that is. So
> far,
> I have tried to call the gerHeaderFooterPolicy() on an XWPFDocument that I
> had previously created in the code and a null value was returned. Thinking
> about HWPF and the typical idion we use there when getting cells, I though
> that I should test the returned value and if it was null, then reate a new
> instance of the XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy class. This still did not work and
> the code still threw a NullPointerException. Finally, I though I would
> create a blank document using Word and insert a footer into that, planning
> to open it using POI and then get the header/footer policy and so on from
> there. However, now an exception was thrown when I tried to create an
> instance of the XWPFDocument class, this time the message concerned a null
> XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy object - surprise!
>
> So, the next thing I am going to try is to download the very latest release
> of the software and try that. As always, I will keep you updated if I make
> any progress. If you want to follow in my footsteps so to speak, this is
> the
> scruffy test code I have been playing around with;
>
> import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
> import org.apache.poi.xwpf.model.*;
>
> import java.io.File;
> import java.io.FileInputStream;
> import java.io.FileOutputStream;
> import java.io.IOException;
>
> /**
>  *
>  * @author win user
>  */
> public class Main {
>
>    public void createDocument(String documentName, String documentFolder) {
>        File file = null;
>        FileInputStream fis = null;
>        FileOutputStream fos = null;
>        XWPFDocument document = null;
>        XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy hfPolicy = null;
>        XWPFFooter footer = null;
>        XWPFParagraph[] footerParas = null;
>        XWPFParagraph para = null;
>        XWPFRun run = null;
>
>        try {
>            document = new XWPFDocument();
>
>            para = document.createParagraph();
>            run = para.createRun();
>            run.setText("This should contain the text for the first XWPFRun
> " +
>                    "in the newly created Paragraph.");
>            run.setBold(true);
>            run = para.createRun();
>            run.setText("It is my hope that this XWPFRun will contain the "
> +
>                    "text for the second paragraph that I have just added -
> " +
>                    "with luck - to the newly created document.");
>
>            hfPolicy = document.getHeaderFooterPolicy();
>
>            if(hfPolicy == null) {
>                hfPolicy = new XWPFHeaderFooterPolicy(document);
>            }
>
>            hfPolicy.createFooter(
>
>
> rg.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.STHdrFtr.Enum.forString("Footer."));
>
>            file = new File(documentFolder, documentName);
>            fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
>            document.write(fos);
>        }
>        catch(Exception ex) {
>            System.out.println("Caught an: " + ex.getClass().getName());
>            System.out.println("Message: " + ex.getMessage());
>            System.out.println("Stacktrace follows:.....");
>            ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
>        }
>        finally {
>            if(fos != null) {
>                try {
>                    fos.close();
>                }
>                catch(IOException ioEx) {
>                    // I G N O R E
>                }
>            }
>        }
>
>    }
>
>    /**
>     * @param args the command line arguments
>     */
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>        new Main().createDocument("New XWPF Document.docx", "C:/temp");
>    }
> }
>
> What it does show is how easy it is to use XWPF to create documents.
>
> Yours
>
> Mark B
>
>
> madhusudan.reddy wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are using ApachePOI for creating word documents dynamically using java
> > in our application. We are wondering if we have a better way to handle
> the
> > header and footers in the word document dynamically.
> >
> > Need information or pointers to implement any of hte following things:
> > 1) Addition of new footer/header dynamically in the word document.
> > 2) Updating an existing footer/header dynamically in the word document.
> >
> > Any pointers would be very helpful.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Madhusudan Reddy
> > JAVA | HDC | Accenture
> > M. No: 9966601155
> >
> >
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