Can mammoth read word documents created with html-docx-js?

html-docx-js gets the given html and renders it as a word document. When reading this created document with mammoth, i get this: An unrecognised element was ignored: w:altChunk

Any ideas on how to get passed this? Can mammoth be used to do what it’s meant for but reverse? Can mammoth create word documents? Anyways that’d be pretty cool. I figured out the reason the code earlier wasn’t working was because I kept getting that error. It didn’t show up on the console, but it did show up on the mammoth example where the error messages go. Mammoth works perfectly fine with chrome apps, thanks for this and I hope you can improve it better by allowing it to read documents created with html-docx-js!

[carlelieser]

Working on an update for Writer, I managed to remedy the issue by checking if the provided .docx file had <w:altChunk r:id="htmlChunk" /> in it. If so, the substring method was used to retrieve the text in between html body tags, effectively returning the HTML.

Not sure exactly how you would be able to implement this into mammoth, but that’s basically how I did it. Also, I’d like to note that the whole system would pretty much go to shit if someone were to explicitly say ‘<w:altChunk r:id=“htmlChunk” />’ in an actual Word document created by Word, so I don’t know how you’d handle that. Just wanted to update the issue, hope this helps.

[MCTaylor17]

I don’t think you need to worry about your search string appearing in the document. Beyond being incredibly unlikely, angle brackets have to be escaped by Word otherwise it would invalidate the underlying XML.