Replace bookmark text in Word file using Open XML SDK

Question

I assume v2.0 is better... they have some nice "how to:..." examples but bookmarks don't seem to act as obviously as say a Table... a bookmark is defined by two XML elements BookmarkStart & BookmarkEnd. We have some templates with text in as bookmarks and we simply want to replace bookmarks with some other text... no weird formatting is going on but how do I select/replace bookmark text?

Answer 1

Here's my approach after using you guys as inspiration:

  IDictionary<String, BookmarkStart> bookmarkMap = 
      new Dictionary<String, BookmarkStart>();

  foreach (BookmarkStart bookmarkStart in file.MainDocumentPart.RootElement.Descendants<BookmarkStart>())
  {
      bookmarkMap[bookmarkStart.Name] = bookmarkStart;
  }

  foreach (BookmarkStart bookmarkStart in bookmarkMap.Values)
  {
      Run bookmarkText = bookmarkStart.NextSibling<Run>();
      if (bookmarkText != null)
      {
          bookmarkText.GetFirstChild<Text>().Text = "blah";
      }
  }