docx4j find and replace

Question

I have docx document with some placeholders. Now I should replace them with other content and save new docx document. I started with docx4j and found this method:

Answer 1

You can use VariableReplace to achieve this which may not have existed at the time of the other answers. This does not do a find/replace per se but works on placeholders eg ${myField}

java.util.HashMap mappings = new java.util.HashMap();
VariablePrepare.prepare(wordMLPackage);//see notes
mappings.put("myField", "foo");
wordMLPackage.getMainDocumentPart().variableReplace(mappings);

Note that you do not pass ${myField} as the field name; rather pass the unescaped field name myField - This is rather inflexible in that as it currently stands your placeholders must be of the format ${xyz} whereas if you could pass in anything then you could use it for any find/replace. The ability to use this also exists for C# people in docx4j.NET

See here for more info on VariableReplace or here for VariablePrepare