I am trying to add a html formatted text to a Open xml Text. How can I apply the formatting already present in the text?
I apply the text as following:
TextElement.Text = formattedString;
where FormattedString contains the following:
<p>test<br/>test2<ul><li>item1</li><li>item2<li2></p>
At the moment it simply inserts the text as it is with the tags into the word document. How can I tell Open XML SDK to add the string with the right format?
You need to create an AlternativeFormatImportPart which contains your HTML, then you need to add an AltChunk to your document and give it the id of the AlternativeFormatImportPart.
The following code creates a file from scratch with your HTML in it. Note that HTML fragments don't appear to be supported so I've added <html> tags to your HTML snippet.
using (var document = WordprocessingDocument.Create(filename, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document))
{
document.AddMainDocumentPart();
document.MainDocumentPart.Document = new Document();
document.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body = new Body();
//create a memory stream with the HTML required
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("<html><p>test<br/>test2<ul><li>item1</li><li>item2<li2></p><html>"));
//Create an alternative format import part on the MainDocumentPart
AlternativeFormatImportPart altformatImportPart = document.MainDocumentPart.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(AlternativeFormatImportPartType.Html);
//Add the HTML data into the alternative format import part
altformatImportPart.FeedData(ms);
//create a new altChunk and link it to the id of the AlternativeFormatImportPart
AltChunk altChunk = new AltChunk();
altChunk.Id = document.MainDocumentPart.GetIdOfPart(altformatImportPart);
// add the altChunk to the document
document.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body.Append(altChunk);
document.Save();
}
This produces the following output:
