When you convert DOCX to HTML, numbering heading in appendix has broken styling

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Hi!

If you convert the following DOCX file to HTML, the styling of the heading in the appendix is broken.

Occurs in Aspose Words (Java) v24.2 but not in v22.9.

Sample file:
appendix.docx (14.4 KB)

Below is the expected and actual HTML produced, including screenshots.

Expected:

Actual:

Expected:

<html>
<body>
<div style="line-height:116%; font-family:Aptos; font-size:12pt">
    <div>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:8pt">
            <span>Some text</span>
        </p>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:8pt">
            <span> </span>
        </p>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; page-break-before:always; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; widows:0; orphans:0; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-bottom:1pt; font-size:16pt">
            <span style="font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold">Appendix A blah blah</span>
        </p>
        <p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-left:28.8pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-indent:-28.8pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:130%; widows:0; orphans:0">
            <span style="font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold">A.1</span>
            <span style="width:10.79pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block">       </span>
            <span style="font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold">Something</span>
        </p>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:8pt">
            <span> </span>
        </p>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Actual:

<html>
<body>
<div style="line-height:116%; font-family:Aptos; font-size:12pt">
    <div>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:8pt">
            <span>Some text</span>
        </p>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:8pt">
            <span> </span>
        </p>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; page-break-before:always; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:normal; widows:0; orphans:0; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-bottom:1pt; font-size:16pt">
            <span style="font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold">Appendix A blah blah</span>
        </p>
        <ol type="1" class="awlist1" style="margin:0pt; padding-left:0pt">
            <li style="margin-top:6pt; margin-left:28.8pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-indent:-28.8pt; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:130%; widows:0; orphans:0; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold">
                <span style="width:10.79pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block">       </span>
                <span>Something</span>
            </li>
        </ol>
        <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:8pt">
            <span> </span>
        </p>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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@digi0 I cannot reproduce the problem on my side using 24.3 version of Aspose.Words. but you can explicitly specify ExportListLabels.AS_INLINE_TEXT to get the expected output:

Document doc = new Document("C:\\Temp\\in.docx");
HtmlSaveOptions opt = new HtmlSaveOptions();
opt.setExportListLabels(ExportListLabels.AS_INLINE_TEXT);
opt.setPrettyFormat(true);
doc.save("C:\\Temp\\out.html", opt);
3

Thanks for your reply!

I had a look and it seems we are saving the document differently to the example you shared. We are using this save method: public SaveOutputParameters save(OutputStream stream, SaveOptions saveOptions). Then we convert the stream to a byte array and use that to do a HTML conversion and write that to a file. This flow works as expected in v22.9 but breaks in later versions.

Are you able to confirm that the save method I mentioned above also works correctly on v24.3? :slight_smile:

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@digi0 Yes, I can confirm saving to stream works as expected. The following code produced exactly the same output as saving directly to a file:

Document doc = new Document("C:\\Temp\\in.docx");
HtmlSaveOptions opt = new HtmlSaveOptions();
opt.setExportListLabels(ExportListLabels.AS_INLINE_TEXT);
opt.setPrettyFormat(true);
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
doc.save(outputStream, opt);
Files.write(Paths.get("C:\\Temp\\out.html"), outputStream.toByteArray());
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Will see if we can change something on our end to get around this then. Thank you!

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