Convert Docx to html using OpenXml power tools without formatting

Question

I'm using OpenXml Power tools in my project to convert a document (docx) into html, using the code already provided with this sdk it produces an elegant duplicate in html form.(Github link : https://github.com/OfficeDev/Open-Xml-PowerTools/blob/vNext/OpenXmlPowerToolsExamples/HtmlConverter01/HtmlConverter01.cs )

However looking at the html markup, the html has embedded styling.

Is there any way of turning this off and using plain and simple <h1> and <p> tags ?

I would like to know this embedded styling as the formatting would be taken care of by bootstrap.

The embedded styling is as follows :

 <p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11pt;line-height: 115.0%;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-top: 0;">
 <span xml:space="preserve" style="font-size: 11pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;margin: 0;padding: 0;"> </span>
 </p>

This as you can see is fine if you want a direct copy, but not if you want to control the style yourself.

In the C# code i have already made the following ajustments :

• AdditionalCss is commented out
• FabricateCssClasses is false
• CssClassPrefix is commented out

Many thanks.

Answer 1

If you can also the XmlReader and XmlWriter to obtain a bare bone html. This could however be a little overkill, as only the tag itself and its text content will be kept.

public static class HtmlHelper
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Keep only the openning and closing tag, and text content from the html
    /// </summary>
    public static string CleanUp(string html)
    {
        var output = new StringBuilder();
        using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(html)))
        {
            var settings = new XmlWriterSettings() { Indent = true, OmitXmlDeclaration = true };
            using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(output, settings))
            {
                while (reader.Read())
                {
                    switch (reader.NodeType)
                    {
                        case XmlNodeType.Element:
                            writer.WriteStartElement(reader.Name);
                            break;
                        case XmlNodeType.Text:
                            writer.WriteString(reader.Value);
                            break;
                        case XmlNodeType.EndElement:
                            writer.WriteFullEndElement();
                            break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        return output.ToString();
    }
}

Resulting output :

<p>
  <span></span>
</p>