How to render HTML text on Document?

[CarlosMC]

Hi All, thanks for the great work you've done here! I wondering if it's possible somehow to render HTML text on a document template. I have HTML text stored from a WYSIWYG control. the html text has lists, strong, br.

[dgrelaud]

Hi,

thanks for the great work you've done here!

Thank you!

I wondering if it's possible somehow to render HTML text on a document template.

It seems not easy to inject HTML string directly in an ODT or Word template. Maybe Carbone should convert basic HTML to "compatible XML" before injection. I add it to our todo list :+1: but, please, be patient because we are a bit busy currently :blush: (on "Carbone as a Service" project).

As an alternative, you can do an HTML template directly and ask to Carbone to convert it to PDF, ODT, DOCX... but it is not as easy to maintain as a normal Word or ODT template.

[ahadortiz]

Hi I have similar problem. I want to insert html codes into html template directly. By the way, html special chars are encoded automatically? Is there any way to disable it?

[steevepay]

Hi @ahadortiz,

First, thanks for the message. Carbone is encoding 5 characters (& < > ¦ ') to avoid conflicts with the XML parser. You can't disable it. It's not a priority but we will consider the issue. If you have fixed the issue since 2018, we are open for PR :)

[ppulinckx]

Also really intersted by this feature ... :)

[menbatisiunissart]

same here

[pandeysabin]

same here