Fill your text document

A powerfull templating facility is included in jOpenDocument.

You start by creating a template file, directly in OpenOffice, with the help of the jOpenDocument AddOn.

It lets you quickly insert all the grey and green spans you see below.

template


You start by creating a template. You can then define values that you need in you document. Either by using setField(), or by using showParagraph()/hideParagraph(). Finally you just call saveAs().

  File templateFile = new File("template/test.odt");
  File outFile = new File("out.odt");
  // Load the template.
  // Java 5 users will have to use RhinoFileTemplate instead
  JavaScriptFileTemplate template = new JavaScriptFileTemplate(templateFile);

  // Fill with sample values.
  template.setField("toto", "value set using setField()");
  List<Map<String, String>> months = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>();
  months.add(createMap("January", "-12", "3"));
  months.add(createMap("February", "-8", "5"));
  months.add(createMap("March", "-5", "12"));
  months.add(createMap("April", "-1", "15"));
  months.add(createMap("May", "3", "21"));
  template.setField("months", months);

  template.hideParagraph("p1");

  // Save to file.
  template.saveAs(outFile);

  // Open the document with OpenOffice.org !
  OOUtils.open(outFile);


The final document will look like:

filled template

If you want to know more about templates, look at the package org.jopendocument.dom.template