Thanks, yes, we now that you can do that but the quesion was 'how can I modify existing footers and insert new footers into a document' not how can I read the contents of same.
Yours Mark B Shamal Karunarathne wrote: > > 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.re...@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:markbrd...@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 >> > >> > >> > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain >> > privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have >> > received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete >> the >> > original. 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