Convert Word to HTML

Namespace: Clippit.Word

Convert a Word document to an HTML XElement, with configurable CSS generation and image handling.

public static class WmlToHtmlConverter {
    public static XElement ConvertToHtml(
        WmlDocument doc, WmlToHtmlConverterSettings htmlConverterSettings)
    {...}

    public static XElement ConvertToHtml(
        WordprocessingDocument wordDoc, WmlToHtmlConverterSettings htmlConverterSettings)
    {...}
}

The converter produces a complete HTML document as an XElement (XHTML). It generates CSS classes for paragraph and character styles, handles numbering/lists, and processes images through a configurable ImageHandler callback.

An extension method is also available directly on WmlDocument:

WmlDocument doc = new WmlDocument("input.docx");
XElement html = doc.ConvertToHtml(settings);

WmlToHtmlConverterSettings

Field	Type	Default
PageTitle	string	""
CssClassPrefix	string	"pt-"
FabricateCssClasses	bool	true
GeneralCss	string	"span { white-space: pre-wrap; }"
AdditionalCss	string	""
RestrictToSupportedLanguages	bool	false
RestrictToSupportedNumberingFormats	bool	false
ImageHandler	Func<ImageInfo, XElement>	null

ImageInfo

The ImageHandler callback receives an ImageInfo object for each image in the document:

Field	Type	Description
Image	SixLabors.ImageSharp.Image	The decoded image
ImgStyleAttribute	XAttribute	The computed style attribute (width/height)
ContentType	string	The image MIME type
DrawingElement	XElement	The source OpenXml drawing element
AltText	string	Alternative text for the image

WmlToHtmlConverter Sample

var doc = new WmlDocument("input.docx");

var settings = new WmlToHtmlConverterSettings
{
    PageTitle = "My Document",
    CssClassPrefix = "doc-",
    FabricateCssClasses = true,
    AdditionalCss = "body { font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; }",
    ImageHandler = imageInfo =>
    {
        // Convert images to inline base64 data URIs
        using var stream = new MemoryStream();
        imageInfo.Image.SaveAsPng(stream);
        var base64 = Convert.ToBase64String(stream.ToArray());
        var imgElement = new XElement(
            Xhtml.img,
            imageInfo.ImgStyleAttribute,
            new XAttribute("src", $"data:image/png;base64,{base64}"),
            new XAttribute("alt", imageInfo.AltText ?? "")
        );
        return imgElement;
    }
};

var html = WmlToHtmlConverter.ConvertToHtml(doc, settings);
File.WriteAllText("output.html", html.ToString());