Plutext

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:55 am**

Hi everyone,
I am performing text substitution, by replacing existing text with new text. While doing so i am deleting existing text completely from a text run. This results into the text run ending with a space, example : <w:t>This is </w:t>
After the word "is" there is a space which does not get displayed in the resulting docx.
When i manually add the property, xml:space="preserve" to this text run, the space gets displayed.
How do i preserve this (leading or trailing) space using docx4j after substitution? How do i add the xml:space="preserve" property programmatically to the text run?

Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:56 am**

org.docx4j.wml.Text, which represents w:t, contains:

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/**

     * Sets the value of the space property.

     * 

     * @param value

     *     allowed object is

     *     {@link String }

     *     

     */
publicvoid setSpace(String value){
this.space= value;
}
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so once you have a reference to that object, the rest is easy...

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:22 am**

Hey Jason,
Thank you very much.
It was definitely easy, just set the string value to "preserve".

Plutext

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