wrong numbering on converting list of bullet contents

[ZeyuTeng96]

Hi, I were trying to converting a structure word into html but I got a wrong numbering for it.

Here is the word file I used for converting:

The converted html is:

<ul><li>Heading #1</li></ul><p>Some content at here. A beautiful day. A nice Friday. Balabala</p><ol><li>Friday:</li></ol><p>Today is Friday</p><ol><li>Saturday:</li></ol><p>The day comes after. Which is tomorrow.</p><ol><li>Sunday:</li></ol><p>The day after tomorrow.</p><ul><li>Heading #2</li></ul><p>How nice it is?</p>

That is resulting to:

What I want is html tags like the following:

<ul><li>Heading #1</li><p>Some content at here. A beautiful day. A nice Friday. Balabala</p><ol><li>Friday:</li><p>Today is Friday</p><li>Saturday:</li><p>The day comes after. Which is tomorrow.</p><li>Sunday:</li><p>The day after tomorrow.</p></ol><li>Heading #2</li><p>How nice it is?</p></ul>

Which looks like:

What is the problem caused for wrong numbering? How can I fix this issue?

[mwilliamson]

I can't be sure without an example document, but I believe the issue is that (for instance) the paragraph after the first bullet point are not themselves a list i.e. so far as the source document is concerned, it's just an ordinary paragraph. A similar issue for mammoth.js contains an explanation and possible solutions.

[ZeyuTeng96]

Heading.docx

Hi there,

this is the word document which I used for testing. I also looked around the simialar issue on mammoth.js https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/issues/121

I saw there is a way to provide a style map to fix it.

However, I applied this style map, nothing changed.

The code is:

import mammoth

with open('./input_files/Heading.docx', "rb") as docx_file:
    style_map = """p[style-name='Ordered List 1 Continuation'] => ol > li > p:fresh"""
    
    result = mammoth.convert_to_html(docx_file, style_map=style_map)

html_content = result.value
print(html_content)

I am not sure whether I were applying the style map correctly?

[mwilliamson]

To use that specific style map, you'll need to make sure that the continuation paragraphs have a style with that name applied to them, and that the preceding paragraph (i.e. the paragraph that actually has the bullet point) is a top-level unordered list.

[ZeyuTeng96]

oh, so basically, how can I check those paragraphs' style? Do I have to inspect those xml elements?

[mwilliamson]

You should be able to view the paragraph style when editing the paragraph in Microsoft Word.

[ZeyuTeng96]

Hi,

Taking a bit of while for figuring out it.

If I want the specific groups of paragraphs have spcific html path like the following graph, I have to set two unique style for those two groups of paragraphs. Am I right?

Can I set those paragraphs into the same style, and provide two style maps for that style? Can mammoth apply two different style map for different paeagraphs automatically?

[mwilliamson]

Yes, I believe you'd have to have two separate styles for the two groups of paragraphs.