MailMergeFromXMLUsingIMailMergeDataSource.java

package com.aspose.words.examples.mail_merge;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import com.aspose.words.Document;
import com.aspose.words.examples.Utils;

public class MailMergeFromXMLUsingIMailMergeDataSource {

	/**
	 * This sample demonstrates how to execute mail merge with data from an XML
	 * data source. The XML file is read into memory, stored in a DOM and passed
	 * to a custom data source implementing IMailMergeDataSource. This returns
	 * each value from XML when called by the mail merge engine.
	 */
	private static final String dataDir = Utils.getSharedDataDir(MailMergeFromXMLUsingIMailMergeDataSource.class) + "MailMerge/";

	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

		// Use DocumentBuilder from the javax.xml.parsers package and Document class from the org.w3c.dom package to read
		// the XML data file and store it in memory.
		DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
		// Parse the XML data.
		org.w3c.dom.Document xmlData = db.parse(dataDir + "Customers.xml");

		// Open a template document.
		Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "TestFile.doc");

		// Note that this class also works with a single repeatable region (and any nested regions).
		// To merge multiple regions at the same time from a single XML data source, use the XmlMailMergeDataSet class.
		// e.g doc.getMailMerge().executeWithRegions(new XmlMailMergeDataSet(xmlData));
		doc.getMailMerge().execute(new XmlMailMergeDataTable(xmlData, "customer"));

		// Save the output document.
		doc.save(dataDir + "TestFile Out.doc");
	}

}