How to Insert a Page Break between Imported Content - OpenXML Developer - Blog

A question arose in the forums - when importing HTML content using altChunk, can you cause KeepLines / KeepNext to be set for imported paragraphs. This is not possible. You can control this when importing a WordprocessingML document using altChunk - you simply go into the imported document and set keepLines (section 17.3.1.14 in IS29500) / keepNext (section 17.3.1.15), and when Word imports that content, the resulting paragraphs have their keepLines / keepNext set per the imported content. However, there is no analogous markup for HTML, so there is no way to set those child elements of the paragraph properties element.

However, it is straightforward to insert a page break between imported chunks of content. The following example sets up a document with two imported chunks, with a page break inserted between them.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;

class Program
{
    static void AppendAltChunk(WordprocessingDocument doc,
        string altChunkId, string html)
    {
        MainDocumentPart mainPart = doc.MainDocumentPart;
        AlternativeFormatImportPart chunk = mainPart.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(
            "application/xhtml+xml", altChunkId);
        using (Stream chunkStream = chunk.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
        using (StreamWriter stringStream = new StreamWriter(chunkStream))
            stringStream.Write(html);

        AltChunk altChunk = new AltChunk();
        altChunk.Id = altChunkId;
        OpenXmlElement last = doc.MainDocumentPart.Document
            .Body
            .Elements()
            .LastOrDefault(e => e is Paragraph || e is AltChunk);
        if (last == null)
            doc.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.InsertAt(altChunk, 0);
        else
            last.InsertAfterSelf(altChunk);
    }

    static void AppendPageBreak(WordprocessingDocument myDoc)
    {
        MainDocumentPart mainPart = myDoc.MainDocumentPart;
        OpenXmlElement last = myDoc.MainDocumentPart.Document
            .Body
            .Elements()
            .LastOrDefault(e => e is Paragraph || e is AltChunk);
        last.InsertAfterSelf(new Paragraph(
            new Run(
                new Break() { Type = BreakValues.Page })));
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (WordprocessingDocument doc =
            WordprocessingDocument.Open("Test.docx", true))
        {
            // First, delete all paragraphs in the document, creating a blank document.
            var paras = doc.MainDocumentPart
                .Document
                .Body
                .Elements<Paragraph>()
                .ToList();
            foreach (var p in paras)
                p.Remove();

            string html1 =
@"<html>
<head/>
<body>
<h1>Html Heading</h1>
<p>On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate.</p>
<p>Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current theme.</p>
</body>
</html>";
            string html2 =
@"<html>
<head/>
<body>
<h1>New Heading</h1>
<p>This content is on its own page.</p>
<p>This is the second paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>";
            AppendAltChunk(doc,
                "AltChunkId1",
                html1);
            AppendPageBreak(doc);
            AppendAltChunk(doc,
                "AltChunkId2",
                html2);
        }
    }
}

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