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Dan Haywood commented on ISIS-172:
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This JIRA talks about using OpenXML, but I don't know if there's a suitable API
in Java to do this. The poi.apache.org project has some OpenXML support, but
it looks pretty sketchy to me.
Another option might be to use OpenDocument format, ie Apache Open Office.
There's lots of material online. It seems likely that there is an appropriate
mail merge capability.
http://www.openoffice.org/download/sdk/
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide
http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.MailMerge.snip
> Domain Service (in domain-libs) to allow domain object entities to build
> .docx (OpenXML) documents against a template .docx, merging in an XML (or
> perhaps JSON) input format.
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> Key: ISIS-172
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-172
> Project: Isis
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Domain: Services
> Reporter: Dan Haywood
> Assignee: Mike Burton
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: newbie
> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
>
> Provide a standalone implementation of a document builder service that can
> be registered as a hidden service, and injected into domain objects so that
> they are able to send build OpenXml documents. The input could be an
> XML-based notation (or perhaps JSON) along with a template .docx document.
> The signature of the interface would be something like:
> [Hidden]
> public interface OpenXmlDocumentBuilder {
> byte[] build(byte[] documentTemplate, org.w3c.Document xmlDoc);
> }
> eg where the XML format is something like:
> <input>
> <LetterDate type="date">2012-01-30</LetterDate>
> <CustomerTitle type="rich">Dear Mrs. Jenkins</CustomerTitle>
> <Blurb>As requested, here are the recent payments made from your
> account</Blurb>
> <Payments type="rich-table">
> <row>
> <Date>2012-01-20</Date>
> <Merchant>Walmart</Merchant>
> <Amount>123.45</Date>
> </row>
> <row>
> <Date>2012-01-21</Date>
> <Merchant>Esso</Merchant>
> <Amount>45.23</Date>
> </row>
> <row>
> <Date>2012-01-22</Date>
> <Merchant>Starbucks</Merchant>
> <Amount>12.01</Date>
> </row>
> <row>
> <Date>2012-01-22</Date>
> <Merchant>Amazon</Merchant>
> <Amount>89.99</Date>
> </row>
> </Payments>
> </input>
> so that the information is used to merge into fields within the OpenXml.
> (NB: if using MS Word, this would correspond to "Content Controls", as per
> the Developer tab).
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