Inserting HTML into restricted placeholders in DOTX

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hi,
we are testing Aspose.Words for a project where we need to import existing HTML snippets into a Word template.
The word template is restricted with regions that accept input.

I can see DocumentBuilder has some methods MoveToXXX but not sure which to use to locate the editable regions?

In the document.xml inside the .dotx i can find the different sections. Example below, where content in a docx based on the template seem to end up under <w:permStart .. /> tag

<w:p w14:paraId="52667919" w14:textId="728761D1" w:rsidR="00DA2DA5" w:rsidRPr="00DA2DA5" w:rsidRDefault="00DA2DA5" w:rsidP="00DA2DA5">
	<w:pPr>
		<w:rPr>
			<w:lang w:val="da-DK"/>
		</w:rPr>
	</w:pPr>
	<w:permStart w:id="1271626912" w:edGrp="everyone"/>
</w:p>

Is this something Aspose.Words support, and how would we go about merging the dotx file with an html file per section?

I imagine something like (pseudo code but we will end up using C#)

Get document based on dotx template
Get document builder from template
Detect editable regions
foreach ( region in regions )
Get html snippet
Insert html snippet into region
Save as DOCX

Any suggestions or code samples for this would be greatly appreciated

Anders

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@AndersRask You can use the following code to achieve this:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\temp\in.docx");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

foreach (EditableRangeEnd end in doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.EditableRangeEnd, true))
{
    builder.MoveTo(end);
    builder.InsertHtml("<b>Bold text </b><i>Italic text</i>");
}

doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.docx");
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Hi Alexey

thanx for a fast response!

It seems to work - well almost!

The data seem to end just after the region which looks a bit wonky:

Is it possible to get the data to end up inside the editable bracket?

Anders

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@AndersRask Could you please attach your input document here for testing? On my side content is inserted between editable range start and end.

5

Instruks-RM.zip (17.7 KB)

Sure thing! I have zipped it up and attached it here

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@AndersRask In your case EditableRangeEnd in some cases is on block level (next to paragraph):

1323×821 209 KB

You can modify the code like this to get the expected output:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.dotx");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

foreach (EditableRangeEnd end in doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.EditableRangeEnd, true))
{
    if (end.PreviousSibling != null && end.PreviousSibling.NodeType == NodeType.Paragraph)
        builder.MoveTo(end.PreviousSibling);
    else
        builder.MoveTo(end);

    builder.InsertHtml("<b>Bold text </b><i>Italic text</i>");
}

doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.docx");

out.docx (18.3 KB)

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Thanx for ultra fast reply! Works like a charm! :slight_smile:

That tool, Document Explorer, looks very useful.

I read elsewhere that it was included in installation, but I cant find it here

C:\Program Files (x86)\Aspose\Aspose.Words for .NET

Is there a way to download it?

thanx
Anders

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@AndersRask You can get DocumentExplorer sources from our Github.

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