Hello, May I ask you a couple of questions please?
What format are the documents in? Are they in the binary .doc/.dot (OLE2CDF) format or the newer xml based format (.docx). What exactly do you mean by combining multiple Word documents? Are you simply concatenating them together or do you take text out of one document and insert it into another document, etc? Are you restricted to identifying and using a 'free' solution or can you spend some money on this project? I only ask as there are commercial solutions that may allow you to do what you want - one that I have seen used and heard discussed is published by a company called Aspose. Here is a link to their site - http://www.aspose.com/ http://www.aspose.com/ . What sort of architecture are you after? I am guessing that you wish to implement some sort of server based solution that clients can log on to. If this is not the case and the application can run as a single user, stand alone solution then there are further solutions you could look at - OpenOffice is one that springs to mind as it has filters that allow it to work with various document formats and an interface that supports a variety of different porgramming languages. There are issues however with using OpenOffice as a 'document server' in a mutli-user environment, hence it lends itself best to stand alone applications. If you are using Windows and working stand alone there is even OLE - flawed though that solution may be. A completely crazy idea, and this one depends upon your files being in the newer .docx format, have you looked at the odftoolkit project - http://odftoolkit.org/ http://odftoolkit.org/ . It is targeted at OpenOffice's implementation of the open document format which is a compressed xml based document format. How closely that resembles the .docx file format I do not know but it may be worth a very quick look. mblee wrote: > > Hello, > > We are currently using Cocoon and need to combine multiple word 2007 > documents. I’ve been familiarizing with POI but have not found anything > concrete that can merge the documents. > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > -Betty > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Merging-word-2007-docx-with-POI-in-Cocoon-tp22485502p22491694.html Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
