Ashaelon wrote
>
>
> Ashaelon wrote
>>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I am very new to Java programming, so if I ask or refer to something
>> wrong, or do not explain things well, please be gentle. :)
>>
>> I am using HWPF to try and read some bookmarks in an Office 2003 Word
>> Document. I have searched and searched for answers, but have been
>> unsuccessful. I have seen posts where people have said they have
>> successfully read the bookmarks using Apache POI, but I haven't been able
>> to decipher how they did it. Here is the code that I am using:
>>
>> try {
>> FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(fileLoc);
>> HWPFDocument wdDoc = new HWPFDocument(fis);
>>
>> try {
>> DefaultTableModel tblModel = new DefaultTableModel();
>>
>> Bookmarks bkmkList = wdDoc.getBookmarks();
>> int bkmkCount = bkmkList.getBookmarksCount();
>> //wdDoc.getBookmarks().getBookmarksCount();
>>
>> for (int i = 0; i < bkmkCount; i++) {
>> Bookmark bkmk = bkmkList.getBookmark(i);
>> List<String> bkmkInfo = new ArrayList<String>();
>> Range bkmkRange = new Range(bkmk.getStart(),
>> bkmk.getEnd(), wdDoc);
>> bkmkInfo.add(bkmk.getName());
>> bkmkInfo.add(bkmkRange.text());
>>
>> tblModel.addRow(bkmkInfo.toArray()); //this part is
>> broken right now
>>
>> bkmkInfo.clear();
>> }
>>
>> String[] aColNames = {"Bookmark Name", "Bookmark Data"};
>> tblModel.setColumnIdentifiers(aColNames);
>>
>> tblList.setModel(tblModel); //this part is broken right now
>> } catch (Exception ex) {
>> JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, ex.getStackTrace(), "Error",
>> JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
>> } finally {
>> if (fis != null) {
>> try {
>> fis.close();
>> fis = null;
>> } catch (Exception e) {
>> // Do nothing
>> e.printStackTrace();
>> } finally {
>> wdDoc = null;
>> }
>> }
>> }
>> } catch (Exception e) {
>> JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, e.getStackTrace(), "Error",
>> JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
>> }
>>
>> I am failing to see how to get only the text of the bookmark range. The
>> layout of the document is there are bookmarks inside of a table. When I
>> call:
>>
>> bkmkRange.text()
>>
>> I get the entire row of data returned instead of just the bookmark range.
>> I notice that getStart(); and getEnd(); return the range start and end of
>> the entire column.
>>
>> Any suggestons of how to fix this would be much appreciated. I am at a
>> complete loss.
>>
>
>
> Just an update. I did a test with reading the bookmarks with the code
> above. I think I found what may be causing the issue, but i dont know how
> to fix it (fixing the Word documents is not an option). The problem seems
> to be that the table cells are bookmarked, not the data in the cells. For
> some reason, this causes the .getStart and .getEnd to return the range of
> the table row, not the table cell. I truly am at a complete loss now.
> How do I read the data out of the bookmarked table cell, or can I?
>
> I have attached an image of my test document to show what I did. The
> "Bookmarked Text" part works properly since the text in the cell is
> bookmarked versus the cell itself being bookmarkded. The "Bookmarked
> Cells" part does not work correctly.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Sorry, forgot to attach the image. Here it is.
http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/file/n5445488/TestDoc.png
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