Re: Copy portions of a Word doc to another, new, Word doc

Hello,
I am very new to OpenXML (1 day).

I am trying to copy portions of one Word document to another Word document.

I'm using the following code snippet to do so.  It seems to be getting some, but not all, of the data.

Am I on the right track?

Thanks for your help.

- Bruce

private bool CopyRequirements(string sourceFile)
        {
            // Search for each requirement by looking for the ID:Requirement tag

            string sourceFolder = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(sourceFile);
            Body sourceBody = mainSourcePart.Document.Body;
            Body mainTargetBody = null;
            OpenXmlElement element = sourceBody.FirstChild;
            WordprocessingDocument myTargetDoc = null;
            MainDocumentPart mainTargetPart = null;
            bool fileOpen = false;
            string fullRequirementName;
            do
            {
                switch (element.GetType().Name)
                {
                    case "Paragraph":
                        if (element.InnerText == "ID: Name")
                        {
                            // found the header
                            element = element.NextSibling();
                            fullRequirementName = element.InnerText;
                            if (myTargetDoc != null)
                            {
                                mainTargetPart.Document.Save();
                                myTargetDoc.Close();
                                myTargetDoc = null;
                            }

                            // create a new document
                            int pos = fullRequirementName.LastIndexOf(":");
                            string requirementID = fullRequirementName.Substring(0, pos);
                            string newPath = sourceFolder + "\\\\" +  requirementID + ".docx";
                            myTargetDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Create(newPath, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document);

                            // Add a new main document part.
                            mainTargetPart = myTargetDoc.AddMainDocumentPart();

                            //Create Document tree for simple document.
                            mainTargetPart.Document = new Document();

                            //Create Body (this element contains other elements that we want to include
                            mainTargetBody = new Body();

                            //Create paragraph
                            Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph();
                            Run run_paragraph = new Run();

                            // we want to put that text into the output document
                            Text text_paragraph = new Text(fullRequirementName);

                            //Append elements appropriately.
                            run_paragraph.Append(text_paragraph);
                            paragraph.Append(run_paragraph);
                            mainTargetBody.Append(paragraph);
                            mainTargetPart.Document.Append(mainTargetBody);
                            fileOpen = true;
                        }
                        else if (fileOpen)
                        {
                            mainTargetBody.Append((Paragraph)element.Clone());
                        }
                        break;

                    case "Table":
                        if (fileOpen)
                        {
                            mainTargetBody.Append((Table)element.Clone());
                        }
                        break;

                    default: // I need to figure which other types there are and how to add them
                        MessageBox.Show("Unknown type: " + element.GetType().Name, "Test");
                        break;
                }
            }while ((element = element.NextSibling()) != null);
            if (myTargetDoc != null)
            {
                mainTargetPart.Document.Save();
                myTargetDoc.Close();
                myTargetDoc = null;
            }
            return true;
        }

Hi there

You might want to check whether the variable that holds the copied data has enough capacity to hold all the data. If data type you chose can't hold all the copied data, some of the data will be trucked.

Hope it helps.

Regards,