feature: Document.headers and footers

It would be incredibly useful to be able to get the page headers through Document.headers, or similar.

For now, I use a very ugly hack to get alll header texts:

def get_headers(file):
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
    document = Document(file)
    namespace = dict(w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main")
    header_uri = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/header"
    headers = []
    for rel, val in document._document_part._rels.iteritems():
        if val._reltype == header_uri:
            xml = val._target._blob
            root = ET.fromstring(xml)
            text_element = root.find(".//w:t", namespace)
            if text_element.text is not None:
                headers.append(text_element.text)
    return headers

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@scanny

I have lots of docx, and I want to replace these docx header’s text Is there any way to do it？

Thanks

[scanny]

This feature set is under active development by @eupharis on this pull request: #291

I don’t believe there’s a workaround at the moment, it would need to be a pretty hairy one given the involvement of new parts, but would certainly be possible. You can look at the analysis documents on that branch to get an idea what’s involved.

And of course encouragement/+1s on that PR is always helpful in keeping spirits high as we move the development along 😃