Search and Replace

[Eric White]

Hi,

Sorry for the long delay in reply. I’ve been heads-down on another very cool, but very difficult Open XML project, to be announced on this blog in the next day or son.

There are two modules in the Open-Xml-PowerTools that can search and replace text:

• OpenXmlRegex
• TextReplacer (A previous implementation that was replaced by OpenXmlRegex)

There is another module, DocumentAssembler, which also sounds as though it would meet your needs.

Unfortunately, all of these modules are written in C#. The process to convert them to JavaScript is a complex, time consuming task. See this blog post for more information. Frankly, I do not know anyone other than myself who has the expertise necessary to do this conversion.

I believe that there is only one approach that you can and should take, which is to write a web service in C# using Open-Xml-PowerTools, and then consume that web service from your JavaScript code.

I have never written code that takes this approach, but I believe that it is possible.

-Eric

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