Bookmark missing after replace with other table

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Hi,
I have a .docx documents which contains a table with Bookmark “WI”.
When i upload the documents, i want to replace the entire table with new table while remaining the same bookmark . I tried below code, but the bookmark is gone after save. Could you please help on this?

		String templateUrl = "C://TEST";
		Document doc = new Document(templateUrl);	
		DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);	
		
		builder.moveToBookmark("WI");
		Table newTable = builder.startTable();
		Bookmark bookmark = doc.getRange().getBookmarks().get("WI");			
		Table table = (Table) bookmark.getBookmarkStart().getAncestor(NodeType.TABLE);	

		builder.insertCell();
		builder.startBookmark("WI");
		
		/// continue insert content
		
		builder.endRow();
		builder.endTable();
		builder.endBookmark("WI");
		table.getParentNode().insertBefore(newTable, table);
		table.remove();
		
		String fileName = woNum + "_" + sdf.format(today)+ ".docx";
		String exportDir = tempFolder + fileName ;
		doc.save(exportDir);
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@WENDYTEE,

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MissingBookmark.zip (40.0 KB)
Hi,
Please find the attached zip file as per requested.

4

@WENDYTEE,

The problem occurs because the target Bookmark is part of the Table that you are removing. In this case, you need to reinsert the bookmark inside the new table by using the following code:

Document doc = new Document("E:\\MissingBookmark\\InputDocument.docx");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

Bookmark bookmark = doc.getRange().getBookmarks().get("WI");
Table table = (Table) bookmark.getBookmarkStart().getAncestor(NodeType.TABLE);
// bookmark.remove();

Table newTable = builder.startTable();
builder.insertCell();
builder.insertCell();
builder.endRow();
for(int i=1; i < 10; i ++) {
    builder.insertCell();
    builder.write("Row " + i);
    builder.insertCell();
    builder.insertCell();
    builder.endRow();
}
builder.endTable();

table.getParentNode().insertBefore(newTable, table);
table.remove();

BookmarkStart start = builder.startBookmark("WI");
BookmarkEnd end = builder.endBookmark("WI");

newTable.getFirstRow().getFirstCell().getFirstParagraph().insertBefore(start, newTable.getFirstRow().getFirstCell().getFirstParagraph().getFirstChild());
newTable.getLastRow().getLastCell().getLastParagraph().insertAfter(end, newTable.getLastRow().getLastCell().getLastParagraph().getLastChild());

doc.save("E:\\MissingBookmark\\awjava-19.7.docx");

Hope, this helps.