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  word to xml conversion

  Mar 13, 2014 03:29 AM|dileepkumarkalva|LINK

  Hi All,

  I want to convert a word document to xml file and xml file should have all font characteristics(bold, size) as like word document.

  Any help is greatly appreciated !!

  Thanks,

  Dileep kumar

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  Re: word to xml conversion

  Mar 13, 2014 03:57 AM|smirnov|LINK

  The latest Word already saves files in XML format, hence the .docx extension. Hope that suffices your need. Simply rename docx to zip and unpack with unzip

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  Re: word to xml conversion

  Mar 13, 2014 06:17 AM|dileepkumarkalva|LINK

  Hi smirnov,

  Can you share any code with me as i am new to xml. I don't know how to convert word document to xml.

  am trying below code, but its not working. I dont want to go for third party tool like spire.. etc.

  String Whole_Data= File.ReadAllText(filename);
  File.WriteAllText(filename1, Whole_Data);

  Thanks,

  Dileep kumar

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  Mar 13, 2014 06:44 AM|smirnov|LINK

  take docx. rename it to zip. 

  Unzip.

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  Re: word to xml conversion

  Mar 13, 2014 08:30 AM|dileepkumarkalva|LINK

  Thank you. Its converting into xml.

  but how do we achieve this programatically !!

  Thanks,

  Dileep kumar

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  Re: word to xml conversion

  Mar 13, 2014 09:19 AM|smirnov|LINK

  This does not convert anything. Docx is written in an xml format, which consists of a zip archive file containing xml and binaries. If rename and extact is only what you wanted to do then just use File.Move() to rename and ExtractToDirectory() to extract (.NET4.5 is required)

  Example

  string zipPath = @"c:\example\file.docx";
  string extractPath = @"c:\example\xml";
  
  File.Move(zipPath, zipPath + ".zip");
  System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(zipPath + ".zip", extractPath);

  for .net4 and older use other methods, e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.gzipstream.aspx 

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  Re: word to xml conversion

  Mar 25, 2014 02:38 AM|dileepkumarkalva|LINK

  Hi,

  Replying late as i have involved in another project.

  Your answer is working fine, but i want to read word document font size, type, forecolor, bold/italic/underline etc... 

  In xml it is showing only font type i.e times new roman and not other.

  I am trying to create a word parser, that parses each and every line based on font characteristics as above.

  Any help is greatly apprectiated.

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  Re: word to xml conversion

  Mar 25, 2014 03:25 AM|smirnov|LINK

  Create a simple document with required characteristics, save as docx, unzip and see where they are stored.

  You should get a file similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats 

  <w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial" w:h-ansi="Arial" w:cs="Arial" />
  <wx:font wx:val="Arial" />
  <w:b />
  <w:b-cs />
  <w:kern w:val="32" />
  <w:sz w:val="32" />
  <w:sz-cs w:val="32" />

  where "Arial" is the type face and "32" is the size in half-points (1/144 of an inch), means the font size is 16. The same will be for forecolor, bold/italic/underline etc...