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    <header>
        <title>POI-XWPF - A Quick Guide</title>
        <subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
        <authors>
            <person name="Nick Burch" email="nick at torchbox dot com"/>
        </authors>
    </header>

    <body>
		<p>XWPF has a fairly stable core API, providing read and write access
      to the main parts of a Word .docx file, but it isn't complete. For
      some things, it may be necessary to dive down into the low level XMLBeans
      objects to manipulate the ooxml structure. If you find yourself having
      to do this, please consider sending in a patch to enhance that, see the
      <link href="../guidelines.html">"Contribution to POI" page</link>.</p>

        <section><title>Basic Text Extraction</title>
        <p>For basic text extraction, make use of 
<code>org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor</code>. It accepts an input
stream or a <code>XWPFDocument</code>. The <code>getText()</code> 
method can be used to 
get the text from all the paragraphs, along with tables, headers etc.
		</p>
		</section>
		
		<section><title>Specific Text Extraction</title>
		<p>To get specific bits of text, first create a 
<code>org.apache.poi.xwpf.XWPFDocument</code>. Select the <code>IBodyElement</code>
of interest (Table, Paragraph etc), and from there get a <code>XWPFRun</code>.
Finally fetch the text and properties from that.
		</p>
		</section>
		
		<section><title>Headers and Footers</title>
		<p>To get at the headers and footers of a word document, first create a
<code>org.apache.poi.xwpf.XWPFDocument</code>. Next, you need to create a
<code>org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFHeaderFooter</code>, passing it your
XWPFDocument. Finally, the XWPFHeaderFooter gives you access to the headers and
footers, including first / even / odd page ones if defined in your
document.</p>
		</section>
		
		<section><title>Changing Text</title>
		<p>From a <code>XWPFParagraph</code>, it is possible to fetch the existing
       <code>XWPFRun</code> elements that make up the text. To add new text,
       the <code>createRun()</code> method will add a new <code>XWPFRun</code>
       to the end of the list. <code>insertNewRun(int)</code> can instead be
       used to add a new <code>XWPFRun</code> at a specific point in the
       paragraph.
		</p>
      <p>Once you have a <code>XWPFRun</code>, you can use the 
       <code>setText(String)</code> method to make changes to the text. To add
       whitespace elements such as tabs and line breaks, it is necessary to use
       methods like <code>addTab()</code> and <code>addCarriageReturn()</code>.
		</p>
		</section>

		<section><title>Further Examples</title>
		<p>For now, there are a limited number of XWPF examples in the
      <link href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/src/examples/src/org/apache/poi/xwpf">Examples Package</link>.
      Beyond those, the best source of additional examples is in the unit 
		tests. <link href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/">
		Browse the XWPF unit tests.</link>
		</p>
		</section>
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