Retain original XML identifiers

[robin-garnham]

Hi there

Great library, thanks to everyone who has contributed.

I'm wondering if there is a way to preserve the original XML ID's onto the generated HTML?
I can see in the original .docx file that most of the elements have ID's on them, how do I get those onto the generated HTML?

[mwilliamson]

No, this isn't something that Mammoth supports, and is probably unlikely to. Would you mind explaining what your use case is?

[robin-garnham]

I want to be able to retain the XML identifier so I can confidently write data back into the original Word Doc in the correct location.

I'm happy to fork the library if need be, any tips on where I'd need to change?

[christianvoigt]

@robin-garnham did you make any progress on this? I am also interested in exactly the same use case.

[robin-garnham]

Yes, I did manage to. I just changed the code and left it as a patch, which worked against 1.6.0 (newer versions might need the patch to be updated).

The code is a bit messy, but it works for my use case :)

mammoth+1.6.0.patch

[christianvoigt]

thank you for the patch!