Generating docx file from HTML file using OpenXML

Question

I\'m using this method for generating docx file:

public static void CreateDocument(string documentFileName, string text)
{
    using (Wordproces         


        

Answer 1

I realize I'm 7 years late to the game here. Still, for future people searching on how to convert from HTML to Word Doc, this blog posting on a Microsoft MSDN site gives most of the ingredients necessary to do this using OpenXML. I found the post itself to be confusing, but the source code that he included clarified it all for me.

The only piece that was missing was how to build a Docx file from scratch, instead of how to merge into an existing one as his example shows. I found that tidbit from here.

Unfortunately the project I used this in is written in vb.net. So I'm going to share the vb.net code first, then an automated c# conversion of it, that may or may not be accurate.

vb.net code:

Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing
Imports System.IO

Dim ms As IO.MemoryStream
Dim mainPart As MainDocumentPart
Dim b As Body
Dim d As Document
Dim chunk As AlternativeFormatImportPart
Dim altChunk As AltChunk

Const altChunkID As String = "AltChunkId1"

ms = New MemoryStream()

Using myDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Create(ms,WordprocessingDocumentType.Document)
    mainPart = myDoc.MainDocumentPart

    If mainPart Is Nothing Then
        mainPart = myDoc.AddMainDocumentPart()

        b = New Body()
        d = New Document(b)
        d.Save(mainPart)
    End If

    chunk = mainPart.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(AlternativeFormatImportPartType.Xhtml, altChunkID)

    Using chunkStream As Stream = chunk.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
        Using stringStream As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(chunkStream)
            stringStream.Write("YOUR HTML HERE")
        End Using
    End Using

    altChunk = New AltChunk()
    altChunk.Id = altChunkID
    mainPart.Document.Body.InsertAt(Of AltChunk)(altChunk, 0)
    mainPart.Document.Save()
End Using

c# code:

using DocumentFormat.OpenXml;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing;
using System.IO;

IO.MemoryStream ms;
MainDocumentPart mainPart;
Body b;
Document d;
AlternativeFormatImportPart chunk;
AltChunk altChunk;

string altChunkID = "AltChunkId1";

ms = new MemoryStream();

Using (myDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Create(ms, WordprocessingDocumentType.Document))
{
    mainPart = myDoc.MainDocumentPart;

    if (mainPart == null) 
    {
         mainPart = myDoc.AddMainDocumentPart();
         b = new Body();
         d = new Document(b);
         d.Save(mainPart);
    }

    chunk = mainPart.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(AlternativeFormatImportPartType.Xhtml, altChunkID);

    Using (Stream chunkStream = chunk.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)
    {
         Using (StreamWriter stringStream = new StreamWriter(chunkStream))         
         {
              stringStream.Write("YOUR HTML HERE");
         }
    }    

    altChunk = new AltChunk();
    altChunk.Id = altChunkID;
    mainPart.Document.Body.InsertAt(Of, AltChunk)[altChunk, 0];
    mainPart.Document.Save();
}

Note that I'm using the ms memory stream in another routine, which is where it's disposed of after use.

I hope this helps someone else!