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How can I retrieve text from docx file

Last post 07-21-2008, 3:39 AM by broshni. 2 replies.


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07-20-2008, 5:26 AM 3485

broshni
Joined on 07-20-2008
Posts 8

How can I retrieve text from docx file

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I have a simple docx file where I just type in as follows

Apple

Orange

Papaya

Now I have xsl file which is written like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/3/main" exclude-result-prefixes="w">

<xsl:output method="html" />

<xsl:template match="/">

<html>

<body>

Before Loop

<xsl:for-each select="w:p/w:r">

Within Loop

<xsl:value-of select="w:t"/>

</xsl:for-each>

After Loop

</body>

</html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Now my problem is that I am not able to get into the for-each loop?

I am using java to parse. I am sure my parser works perfectly but it only prints

"Before Loop" and "After Loop" in the html output file.

Help me out.Please

Thanx in advance

broshnikanta@gmail.com

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07-20-2008, 8:36 PM 3487 in reply to 3485

jasonh
Joined on 09-24-2007
Posts 22

Re: How can I retrieve text from docx file

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If you are applying that to the main document part (eg word/document.xml), you'll still need to get your XPath right.

The w:p/w:r live inside w:document/w:body

It can be convenient to run the transform on a single xmlPackage file (so your transform can use the styles part).

Given that you are using Java, you might like to try docx4j.

See for example the transform method in this class.

If all you want is to extract the text from the document.xml, non-xslt approaches may work for you as well. For example, docx4j has a P class representing the paragraph, from which you can get the text via a method call.

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07-21-2008, 3:39 AM 3489 in reply to 3487

broshni
Joined on 07-20-2008
Posts 8

Re: How can I retrieve text from docx file

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As far as I know, I don't think it'srequired to specify 'w:document/w:body' explicitly in the xsl since in the xsl template I am using

<xsl:template match="/">

Any way, thanx for response with some minor changes, everything works fine.

But I am not able to retrieve the images and put them in the appropriate position in the html file generated. Looking forward to quickest responses from your end this time again. Thanx in advance

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