How to get HTML content from Word(Directly)

[Zhiguo]

Hi, my friends:

I can get the content of a word document *in plain text* by the
following code:
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WORD::_DocumentPtr spDoc = m_spApp->ActiveDocument;
WORD::RangePtr spRange1=NULL;
spDoc->get_Content(&spRange1);
BSTR bstr1;
spRange1->get_Text(&bstr1);

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But now I want to get the content in HTML format.
I know I can save the document in HTML format, and thus get the
content in HTML format.
Is there a way to do it directly? Without the "saving as" trick.

Thanks! Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

[Jay Freedman]

No, there is no way to do it directly. The HTML tags don't exist in the
document that's in memory; they are inserted by the HTML conversion filter
that's selected in the Save As dialog, which interprets the style and direct
formatting information in the document, and the tags exist only in the
character stream sent to the disk file.

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[Zhiguo]

But the HTML that Word saveas, is very...complicated.
Is there a way to convert .doc file into clean html files?
Thanks!

 

[Jay Freedman]

There are two HTML entries in the Save As Type dropdown. If you choose "Web
Page, Filtered" instead of "Web Page" you will get a considerably less
complicated coding. The point of the unfiltered "Web Page" output is to
enable rendering of everything the native file format is capable of
expressing; the filtered output is closer to clean HTML but not completely
clean.

If you want very simple HTML, you can write a macro (or maybe find one on
the Web, although I don't have an example handy) to find each occurrence of
text with the types of formatting you're interested in, and surround it with
the appropriate tags; the result can then be saved as plain text.

An alternative would be to dump the plain text into a real HTML editor and
tag it any way you like.