package com.aspose.words.examples.mail_merge;
import com.aspose.words.Document;
import com.aspose.words.examples.Utils;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
/**
* 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.
*/
public class XMLMailMerge {
private static final String dataDir = Utils.getSharedDataDir(XMLMailMerge.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");
System.out.println("Mail merge performed successfully.");
}
}