Line breaks result in corrupted docx file about docxtemplater HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi,

Yep I think you have found the best solution I can think of for the problem you encounter.

In a HTML Templating Language, I think new lines are never converted automatically into <br> and I think that would be outside of the scope of docxtemplater.

However the fact that it says the output is invalid should lead to this: maybe docxtemplater should throw an error itself when they are some new lines in the text you want to enter.

An other solution for this would be to convert the text the user entered into valid XML (Like <w:p><w:t> .... </w:t> </w:p>) and using the {@rawXml} notation. You would have to make that conversion accordingly.

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So I thought I was passing in \n line breaks and that was causing the corrupted docx file, but in fact forgot the /g in my regex, so was indeed passing in some <br>s.

As far as docxtemplater throwing errors, you might consider automatic escaping characters that will result in invalid XML, with an option to override for someone intentionally passing in valid XML. Or, just note in the readme that tags may result in an invalid XML file.

But regardless, it's working perfectly for me now. Thank you!

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The @ notation : {@text} does exactly this. It will replace the current paragraph by the XML you pass into text.

I will probably escape the XML content with the normal notation {text}

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