Simplify/ Clean up XML of a DOCX word document

Question

I have a Microsoft Word Document (docx) and I use Open XML SDK 2.0 Productivity Tool to generate C# code from it.

I want to programmatically insert some database values

Answer 1

I have found a solution: the Open XML PowerTools Markup Simplifier.

I followed the steps described at http://ericwhite.com/blog/2011/03/09/getting-started-with-open-xml-powertools-markup-simplifier/, but it didn't work 1:1 (maybe because it is now version 2.2 of Power Tools?). So, I compiled PowerTools 2.2 in "Release" mode and made a reference to the OpenXmlPowerTools.dll in my TestMarkupSimplifier.csproj. In the Program.cs I only changed the path to my DOCX file. I ran the program once and my document seems to be fairly clean now.

Code quoted from Eric's blog in the link above:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using OpenXmlPowerTools;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument.Open("Test.docx", true))
        {
            SimplifyMarkupSettings settings = new SimplifyMarkupSettings
            {
                RemoveComments = true,
                RemoveContentControls = true,
                RemoveEndAndFootNotes = true,
                RemoveFieldCodes = false
                RemoveLastRenderedPageBreak = true,
                RemovePermissions = true,
                RemoveProof = true,
                RemoveRsidInfo = true,
                RemoveSmartTags = true,
                RemoveSoftHyphens = true,
                ReplaceTabsWithSpaces = true,
            };
            MarkupSimplifier.SimplifyMarkup(doc, settings);
        }
    }
}