Re: Apache Velocity for Producing Document

2015-07-17 Thread velocityuser user
Thanks Antoine for the quick response. I have requirements such as conditional data population and nested templates. Does POI support these two requirements? Also I need to know if the Template can handle any kind of start / end tag or it need to have a standard format? Thanks in advance for y

Re: Apache Velocity for Producing Document

2015-07-17 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Velocity can generate a report from a template and a dataset, but you'd still need something that can parse the original .dot files. POI can both read and write documents, at least excel documents. I haven't tried using it to parse or write a .docx file, but a quick search should determine wheth

Re: Apache Velocity for Producing Document

2015-07-17 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
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

Re: Apache Velocity for Producing Document

2015-07-17 Thread Antoine Levy Lambert
Hi, The last release of velocity was on the 29th of November 2010. [1] I would look at Apache POI instead [2] This project has most likely a user list where you can discuss your use case. Antoine [1] http://velocity.apache.org [2] http://poi.apache.org On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:43 PM, velocityuse