Tags for Word or similiar

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hello,

In my project I generate programmatically HTML files with some tags, for example,

<br style="mso-break-type:section-break"/>
<span style="mso-element:field-separator"> 
<w:Sdt SdtDocPart="t" DocPartType="Table of Contents" DocPartUnique="t" ID="182337302">.

That file is converted to docx using Microsoft Word automation that is already deprecated. Those tags are included to generate a Table of Contents and other stuffs.
We would like to use Aspose.Words for Java to convert that HTML to Docx. What should we have to change in that HTML to make it possible a conversion to Docx generating a Table of Contents?

Thanks in advanced,
Berg

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@bergpatricio As I can see you are using MS Word specific MSO attributes and tags in your HTML. I am afraid Aspose.Words does not fully support these attributes and tags. This feature request is logged as WORDSNET-10399.

Regarding your HTML snippet.

  1. Section break can be inserted using similar HTML tag as in your HTML:
<br style="page-break-before:always; clear:both; mso-break-type:section-break" />
  1. Table of contents can be inserted using the following HTML code:
<p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:5pt">
	<span style="-aw-field-start:true"></span><span style="-aw-field-code:' TOC \\o &quot;1-3&quot; \\h \\z \\u '"></span><span style="-aw-field-separator:true"></span><span style="-aw-field-end:true"></span>
</p>

If your goal is document generation I would suggest to use either template and generate document from template using Mail Merge or LINQ Reporting Engine or using Aspose.Words API.

Please note, Aspose.Words is designed to work with MS Word documents. HTML documents and MS Word documents object models are quite different and it is not always possible to provide 100% fidelity after conversion one format to another.

3

@alexey.noskov Could you point me to documentation regarding these aw-field-start, aw-field-code, aw-field-* elements? Are these styles specific to Aspose?
I noticed that the issue status is set to ‘postponed.’ When can we expect it to be resolved?

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@bergpatricio Yes, -aw-field-start, -aw-field-code, -aw-field-separator and -aw-field-end attributes are Aspose.Words specific. -aw- means Aspose.Words. These attributes have been introduced to support field roundtrip after Word->HTML-Word roundtrip using Aspose.Words.

Yes, the issue is postponed and is not yet scheduled for development. So currently we cannot provide any estimates.