On 09/05/2019 06:57 PM, Lekan Owodunni wrote:
How does the w2x tool handle empty paragraphs (see attached sample docx
file)?
They are automatically discarded when generating semantic XML.
They are kept only when generating styled XHTML (that is, HTML looking
like the DOCX document).
It appears that they do not appear in the resulting topic file.
Is this how the tool should work
Yes.
Empty paragraphs are almost always used by the MS-Word author to add
some vertical space to her/his document. Keeping these would make no
sense when converting the DOCX file to semantic XML.
and Is there an option for specifying
whether empty paragraphs should be kept?
No.
Our documentation is up to date. If such option existed, it would have
been documented here:
"The w2x command-line utility"
https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/index.html#w2x_command
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See "Going further with w2x",
https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/manual/index.html#going_further
See "The XED scripting language",
https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/_distrib/doc/xedscript/index.html
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