Hello all,
My company and I continue to make progress manipulating MS Office documents
with docx4j.  Having the full-fidelity JAXB tree of every part of every
document type is indispensible.  POI is simply unsatisfactory for the xml
 formats, as unsatisfactory as the Hawaiian foodstuff.
I have a few patches that I've accumulated.  They're separated out here into 4
pieces, so they can be analyzed/accepted/rejected separately.  They will all
apply cleanly on trunk as of today's revision 1342.
These patches are submitted in accordance with the docx4j contributor policy
as described here:
http://dev.plutext.org/docx4j/docx4j_In ... butor.docx
pom.xml.diff:
 - configure the maven surefire plugin from trying to run certain classes as
   JUnit tests.  The following samples get picked up as tests, since they match
   *Test.java:
   src/pptx4j/java/org/pptx4j/samples/RoundTripTest.java
   src/main/java/org/docx4j/samples/HyperlinkTest.java
   src/main/java/org/docx4j/samples/OpenAndSaveRoundTripTest.java
 - configure the 'copy-resources' part of the build to pick up xslt and xml
   files in the src/main/java and src/pptx/java parts of the tree.  Otherwise
   these are missing for me from the resultant jar.  (Note: are release jars
   built some other way than maven that picks up these resources?)
docx.diff:
 - declare a JAXB type adapter (package-info.java) for java.math.BigInteger
   (BigIntegerAdapter.java) in the org/docx4j/wml package.  This works around
   a bug in old JAXB releases, where null numbers are serialized out as empty
   string "", and cause deserialization errors later, on the way back in.  I
   would normally try to ensure a proper JAXB on installation, but I need to
   run in environments where I cannot easily do so.  This simple workaround
   avoids great pain.
 - re-raise several caught/swallowed Exceptions in XmlUtils.java.  They are
   re-raised as RuntimeException where the enclosing method sigature doesn't
   allow any declared exception.
pptx.diff:
 - guard against null elements in a couple of places (ResolvedLayout.java,
   TextStyles.java)  The null elements guarded against occurred with files
   generated by OpenOffice, I imagine that MS Office always has the elements
   in question present.
			
				
