Apache POI - merge two documents - malformed xml generated

Asked Mar 27 '15 at 10:09

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I have two .docx documents in byte[] format and I have to merge these two documents into one. The java code runs successfully but I am not able to open the document I have used the below link to write the merging code -

Is there any java library (maybe poi?) which allows to merge docx files?

This works well when I do not have any headers and footers on any of my document. In case, any one of the two document will have the header or footer, I am not able to open the merged document as the document.xml is malformed or invalid.

I am getting the below error while trying opening the document -

Microsoft Office can't open this file because some parts are missing or invalid
Location : Part:/word/document.xml, Line 2, Column 0

I had a look at document.xml, it just have the below xml fragment at line 2-

<w:document  xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main">

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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asked Mar 27 '15 at 10:09

KADeveloper

What about if you try with two really really simple word docs - does that work? – Gagravarr Mar 27 '15 at 17:03
Yes, I am able to merge two really really simple word documents perfectly. – KADeveloper Mar 30 '15 at 07:43
Can you work out what about your files is triggering the problem? Perhaps by deleting bits of them until it works? – Gagravarr Mar 30 '15 at 15:05
yes, I keep removing headers and footers one by one, but it worked only when the documents doesnt have headers and footers at all – KADeveloper Apr 01 '15 at 09:55

Apache POI - merge two documents - malformed xml generated

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