Plutext

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:40 am**

Hi Jason,

First off let me say docx4j is awesome. OK with that out of the way here is my question.

I am using the HtmlExporterNG2 class to export to html. Everything is working well except the output eliminates all carriage returns, and the apostrophe character is being replaced with â€™.
I'm not sure if there are tweaks I need to be making in the xslt, or if there is some other issue.

My code is pretty basic.

Code: Select all: try { AbstractHtmlExporter exporter = new HtmlExporterNG2(); HtmlSettings htmlSettings = null; OutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult result = new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult(os); exporter.html(wordMLPackage, result, htmlSettings); sReturn = os.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { log.error("getHTML"); }

Here is the exported html:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships"><head><style></style><script type="text/javascript"> function toggleDiv(divid){ if(document.getElementById(divid).style.display == 'none'){ document.getElementById(divid).style.display = 'block'; }else{ document.getElementById(divid).style.display = 'none'; } } </script></head><body>  <div class="document"> Nelson Adams 152 Main Street Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Dear Nelson , Hello. How are things going with you? Thank you for contacting me. Youâ€™re the best! Sincerely, Ben Franklin</div>  </body></html>

I attached the sample docx.
Any ideas on what i'm doing wrong?

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:16 am**

You can see the empty paragraph there in your HTML; it is just that the browser ignores it :-(

To fix this, if the paragraph is empty, I now insert into it, which causes the browser to display it. See https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/commi ... e788052390

If you know of a better approach, please let me know.

Regarding the apostrophe, it shows up ok in my browser. Obviously something is wrong somewhere, but I need to be able to reproduce. So what does your environment look like? What does the code which emits the HTML look like?

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:39 am**

OK that makes sense. So to get the latest change do i just download the nightly build?

The environment is java running as a managed bean in a JSF framework. It is a Domino xpage server running on a Windows box to be specific. Let me see if i can put together some simplifed code to reproduce the issue for you. I'll get something posted up tommorrow.

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 2:26 am**

I figured out what is going on here. It has to do with Microsoft Word "Smart Quotes" displaying wierd in HTML. If i disable smart quotes in Word, there is no issue.

Please see:
http://www.kevinkorb.com/post/37
http://ezinearticles.com/?Microsoft-Word-Smart-Quotes-and-Internet-Article-Writers-Dont-Mix&id=15624

Posted: **Sat Jun 02, 2012 2:29 am**

What would be the best way for me to replace the smart quotes in the HTML conversion?

Posted: **Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:57 pm**

With https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/commi ... 8f41c620dc smart quotes should work. I'll make a 'nightly' build in the next 36 hours.

Are you using IE 9? I've found that it does not honour a UTF-8 encoding specified in an XML declaration. (In the browser, View > Encoding .. if it is something other than UTF 8, change it).

The above commit excludes the XML declaration, so IE seems to use UTF-8 properly.

You mentioned you are using docx4j with Domino xpage server. Could I trouble you to share some notes about how you configured it, for the benefit of the poster in docx-java-f6/trouble-with-lotus-domino-xpages-t1100.html and others. Thanks :-)

Posted: **Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:09 pm**

jason wrote: I'll make a 'nightly' build in the next 36 hours.

OK, please try http://www.docx4java.org/docx4j/docx4j- ... 120604.jar

Posted: **Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:10 pm**

Jason,

I apparently mispoke when I said the smart quote issue was resolved. I never changed my settings back in Word. I am still having issues when smart quotes are used. I am also have issues with bulleted lists displaying wierd characters. I have tested it in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. I have confirmed that all browsers are in fact using UTF-8 encoding.

Posted: **Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:18 pm**

Please attach a test docx exhibiting the issue.

Since I thought this was fixed in that nightly, it may be worth double checking you don't have an old docx4j jar on your classpath somewhere?

Posted: **Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:28 pm**

I attached a sample file. I double checked and I definitely have the latest build in the classpath. The build fixed the other issue with the carriage returns not working, so I am pretty positive I have the right one.

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:09 am**

Your word.docx converted to HTML fine for me; I looked at it in IE9 and Chrome 19.0.1084.52 m

As a starting point, please try the conversion on the file using the sample code I used: https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/ ... tHtml.java

Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:31 am**

ok I figured it out. The issue was with the conversion from outputstream to char string. I fixed it by specifying UTF-8 in the toString call. Thanks for the help.

Code: Select all: ((ByteArrayOutputStream)os).toString("UTF-8") ;

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