Asking for recommendation on how to deal with Open Office XML Documents (.docx/.xlsx)
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iyxan23 posted this in #help-forum
iyxan23OP
I'm currently in need of a way of being able to modify an ooxml document (
Thinking of doing that in a different language, perhaps rust or python; if there are any similar libraries out there.
.docx and .xlsx) on nextjs (well technically nodejs), something like docxtemplater, but free? I cannot afford the (atrocious) pricing of the modules I needed. Asking for suggestions to anybody who had encountered this same roadblock!Thinking of doing that in a different language, perhaps rust or python; if there are any similar libraries out there.
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iyxan23OP
did a long research, stumbled upon a few interesting libraries but not enough for my usecase: https://github.com/bokuweb/docx-rs/ (can be used to interface to JS with wasm bindings), and a python library idk
if anybody's wondering, what i decided to do is to manually parse the XML of
word/document.xml from a docx file and set up a simple visitor pattern that searches for element with type w:p, and do a simple regex on its child w:r>w:t if it exists.a reference to the structure of an ooxml file: http://officeopenxml.com/WPcontentOverview.php
very old website yet very useful
the complete ooxml spec can be downloaded at https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-376/ for free
iyxan23OP
heck i actually managed to do it
here's the code incase anyone wanted to expand it from here lol:
docx-replacer.tsdocs-closing-tags-list.tsneeds
zip.js and fast-xml-parser as depsthinking of publishing this as a lib, might be useful for someone out there
iyxan23OP
heya sorry for bumping, i had just published this on github in case someone needed it: https://github.com/iyxan23/ooxml-templater-js :)
basic docx templating is working as expected, xlsx is a work-in-progress