Reading xml/*.docx files in C#.net without using office interop

Reading  xml/*.docx files in C#.net without using office interop

Option 1

Convert the extension of  *.docx file to *.xml and save

Option 2:

Convert the extension of  *docx file to *.zip and save

Now extract the file and check the files inside for document.xml

When *.xml files are ready, we can use

1. XDocument  class 

2. XmlTextReader

// Using  XDocument -

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace WinwordRead

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            try

            {

                //  string path = @"..\..\RAC\word\document.xml";

                string path = @"..\..\Test.xml";

                string opath = @"..\..\result.txt";

                //load the xml

                XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(path);

                //get nodes

                var xnodelist = xdoc.Nodes();

                foreach (XNode x in xnodelist)

                {

                    // to print whole doc

                    Console.WriteLine(x.NodeType.ToString());

                }

                // get elements

                IEnumerable<XElement> xelist = xdoc.Elements();

                foreach (XElement xex in xelist)

                {

                    Console.WriteLine(xex.Value.ToString());

                    Console.WriteLine(xex.Name.ToString());

                }

                #endregion

                Console.Read();

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());

            }

        }

    }

}

//  Source code using XmlTextReader

             

                XmlTextReader txtreader = new XmlTextReader(path);

                var stringlist = new List<string>();

                while (txtreader.Read())

                {

                    var d = txtreader.NodeType.ToString().ToLower().Contains("grid");

                    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(txtreader.Value.ToString()) && !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(txtreader.Value)

                        && txtreader.NodeType.ToString().ToLower().Equals("text"))

                    {

                        string content = txtreader.Value.ToString() + "\n";

                        stringlist.Add(content);

                    }

                }