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Learn more about Teams if(document.getBodyElements().get(0) instanceof XWPFSDT) { document.removeBodyElement(0);

When debugging document the XWPFSDT element is correctly removed but on output cover page is still here.

Is there some way to update/refresh document xml, even if changes are happens from low level, how can we refresh docs to keep it uptodate

Until apache poi version 3.17 , the XWPFDocument.removeBodyElement removes only BodyElementType.TABLE or BodyElementType.PARAGRAPH properly. It lacks CTBody.removeSdt .

So we must do the low level stuff our self:

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
public class WordRemoveCoverPage {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("WordDocumentWithCoverPage.docx"));
  if(document.getBodyElements().get(0) instanceof XWPFSDT) {
   System.out.println(document.removeBodyElement(0)); // true == success, but low level <w:sdt> is not removed from the XML
   document.getDocument().getBody().removeSdt(0);
  document.write(new FileOutputStream("WordDocumentWithoutCoverPage.docx"));
  document.close();
                Thanks Axel Richter, you confirm I can only remove this page I can’t get paragraphs from  XWPFSDT object? Because sometimes I don’t want remove it juste get paragraphs and pply some logics on it and XWPDSDT.getBody().getParagrahps() seems null
– istiti
                Jun 21, 2018 at 21:18
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