News of content controls (w:sdt) and data binding

I've published source code for a webapp which performs non-interactive processing of an OpenDoPE docx. The idea is that you provide the docx and an xml file, and the servlet will process that and then stream you the resulting docx.

A web app is a better approach than a command line app which exits after each run, since you don't incur Context startup time for each document.

You can find the source code at ...

With http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j/changeset/1645 if a content control is bound to text which contains http://, docx4j's BindingHandler will make a w:hyperlink out of that bit.

sample-docs/word/databinding/hyperlink-binding-test.docx can be used to test this functionality.

There's a catch though.

Word 2007 can't open the result, unless you remove the w:databinding and w:text elements from the w:sdtPr.

If you use the RemovalHandler to remove the content controls entirely, ...

Hi All,
I am quite new to docx4j, Though i could succeed in custom xml binding , I am finding difficult in binding repeated rows in a table. The following is the xml (wordprocessingMl) code

<w:sdt>
<w:sdtPr>
<w:alias w:val="Repeat" />
<w:tag
w:val="bindingrole=repeat&amp;w:xpath=/project[1]/authors&amp;w:storeItemID={5C774536-D99F-4F95-B4BC-725DF5804EC0}" />
<w:id w:val="1418037945" />
</w:sdtPr>
<w:sdtContent>
<w:tr w:rsidR="00E43216" w:rsidTr="001A0211">
<w:sdt>
<w:sdtPr>
<w:id w:val="12962546" />
<w:showingPlcHdr />
<w:dataBinding w:prefixMappings="xmlns:ns0='http://gsal.project'"
w:xpath="/project[1]/authors/author[1]/name" w:storeItemID="{5C774536-D99F-4F95-B4BC-725DF5804EC0}" />
<w:alias w:val="Name" />
<w:tag w:val="name" />
<w:id w:val="1418037951" />
<w:placeholder>
<w:docPart w:val="DefaultPlaceholder_22675703" ...

The source code for the OpenDoPE Word Add-In developer edition is now available at http://opendope.codeplex.com/

It is released under the GPL, with an alternative license available for those wishing to extend it privately.

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thanks .. Jason

Hi,

I have a problem with OpenDoPE Word Add-In.
As mention here, I have posted a new topic here but the forum activity seems to be pretty low.
In order to avoid that topic to be forgotten, I repost it here.

Hi,

I'm experiencing big issue with OpenDoPE.
It's not anymore present in the Office Ribbon Menu.
I've uninstalled it to reinstall it but the reinstall fails and not only on my computer.
Here is ...

These are the things I miss most about the otherwise very usable OpenDoPE Word plug-in (tested on Win XP 32 Bit, Office 2010), in my personal order of decreasing importance.

• The listboxes in the OpenDoPE task pane should scale according to pane size, and/or should be resizable inside the pane.
• Make contents repeat should allow to select an existing xpath expression, like with Make conditional.
• The xpath helper should allow to consolidate duplicate entries ...

Hi Jason

I have again a problem by generating customXml when I use your CustomXmlBinding (changed it a bit).
In BindingHandler.applyBindings(wordMLPackage.getMainDocumentPart()); the JaxbElement wont be marshaled...

The dom document will be null here
org.w3c.dom.Document doc = XmlUtils.marshaltoW3CDomDocument(part.getJaxbElement() );

and in the logs i see :
: Couldn't locate part by storeItemId {6517eaad-b242-4cf0-a49d-4a6c3f31c6e1}

This seems to be better without BindingHandler.applyBinding() but in this case I have the "Click to add" text in a ...

The schema for the xpaths is missing from xsd/OpenDoPE, and after missing them for some time, I wrote one. Maybe its useful for anyone else. It adds a few restrictions in contrast to the one which can be directly derived from Xpaths.java and - on the other hand - drops those which I never met working with static (no questions) documents. Maybe its useful to someone else.

@Jason: wonder whether descrption (sic) and comments were ...

Hi Jason,

We managed successfully to integrate the docx4j library into some projects here, however there is something we would like to use that apparently is not supported.
There is an issue with Simple Fields (w:fldSimple).
Due to security reasons, I can't give you the full Word document, but I can give you the related xml sources :

• header2_output.xml
• header2_input.xml

In the prepared template with OpenDoPE ...

We have been discussing roundtripped document binding before, and I did some work on it. If you think it's worth, I'd happily suggest another release candidate.

In the moment, a repeat SDT is multiplied into several SDTs stripped off, all these SDTs not tagged any more. I changed this into the first SDT unchanged, the following denoted by an empty repeat-tag "od:repeat=". On a second run on this document, the first SDT is then re-used ...