{"id":2299,"date":"2016-02-04T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericwhite.com\/home2\/bm8qcmjy\/public_html\/blog\/?page_id=2299"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T13:15:07","slug":"in-depth-exploration-of-wordprocessingml-fields","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ericwhite.com\/blog\/in-depth-exploration-of-wordprocessingml-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Depth Exploration of WordprocessingML Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

Return to the WordprocessingML Screen-Cast Series<\/a><\/span>WordprocessingML fields are an important construct of Open XML markup. Hyperlinks, the TOC, dates, computed values, page references, and much more are represented by fields. You cannot reliably retrieve a list of all hyper-links in a document without understanding fields and their markup. You can retrieve a partial set of hyperlinks by iterating through external references, however, in some circumstances, a hyper-link is represented in the field markup only, and there is no external reference.<\/p>\n

To date, there has not been much in the way of content that explains fields and how to work with them. In this post, I introduce the first video in a two-part series that explains how field markup works. After posting the two videos, I will post some utility code that makes it easier to work with fields. Finally, I will post some code that reliably retrieves all hyper-links in a document.<\/p>\n