multiple documents word file

Hello,
i've used opentbs for some months  to produce word documents and I am very satisfied with the result.
I now have the need to  queue  multiple documents of the same type in a single word file : in this way by opening a single file I can print all the documents at once.
For simple cases I solved by inserting the single template inside a word  table cell and exploiting the characteristics of opentbs blocks, but now I should do that appending single documents each consisting of few  pages and this solution doesn't seem very effective: for example, I can't  print the page number and the footer, because any cell that contains the single document encroaches on multiple pages. May you suggest a better solution?
Thanks a lot!
Elena

Hi Elena,

I'm surprised your solution worked a bit.
It is quite difficult to combine several Docx in a single one because styles, images  and other peripheral complements are not the same between documents.

Nevertheless, you can try a solution (never tested yet):
In each documents to insert, get the XML part that is between tags <w:body> and </w:body>.
Concatenate all those XML into a single one.
Then, in the single target document,  replace the content that is between <w:body> and </w:body> with the concatenated XML.

Hi,

interesting suggestion! I tried it and it works, but for header and footer, that I loose.

what I've done is:
create file 1, dinamically, with opentbs
create file 2 and file 3 in the same way.
The three files have the same template, containing header and footer correctly managed.

I extract xml part from file 1 ,  concatenate it with xml part of file 2 and replace xml part of file 3 with the resulting concatenation.

When opening file 3 Words raises an error message, that I can bypass, but the file, which is correctly formatted, lost header and footer...

Any idea on what's the matter with it?

Thankyou anyway for you attention!

Hi,

This is strange because DOCX saves headers and footers in a separated XLM sub-file than main contents.
So the header and footers should be the same as the hosting DOCX file.

I cannot explain the behavior. But you can send to me your file so I could have a look.