Is there a way to easily convert html to wordml?

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DarrylR - 02 Mar 2006 12:57 GMT

I Googled this topic last night and discovered that many people have
encountered this problem. However, I didn't find any references to an easy
solution (or, oddly enough, a product). I'm trying to do it from a VSTO
solution created in C# .NET using the primary interop assemblies.

I'm attempting to translate html that incorporates standard formatting tags
(e.g. ,,,,and ), lists (e.g. ul), etc. to something
that can be inserted using the InsertXML method (similar to the code found
at http://blogs.officezealot.com/chris/archive/2003/11/06/1253.aspx below).

Original Sub:
Private Sub InsertWordML()
Dim sXML As String
sXML = "<wordDocument
xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml'><body>" & _
"<r><t xml:space='preserve'>Example of WordML and InsertXML
run at </t></r>" & _
"</body></wordDocument>"
'Insert WordML
Selection.InsertXML (sXML)
End Sub

What I'd like to do:
Private Sub InsertWordML()
Dim sXML As String
sXML = "<wordDocument
xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml'
xmlns:ht='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'>" &_
"<body><r><t xml:space='preserve'><ht:u>Example <ht:b>of
WordML</ht:b> and InsertXML</ht:u></t></r>" &_
"</body></wordDocument>"
'Insert WordML
Selection.InsertXML (sXML)
End Sub

I found some references to SpreadsheetML accepting HTML using the following
syntax:
<ss:Data ss:Type='String'
xmlns='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'>hithere everyone</ss:Data>.

Is there a WordML equivalent syntax?

Thanks in advance,
Darryl R.

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DarrylR - 03 Mar 2006 01:09 GMT

I ended up using the Range.InsertFile method for now. It means writing an
html file to disk temporarily, but I found that it's not too expensive in
terms off performance.

Regards,
Darryl R.

> I Googled this topic last night and discovered that many people have
> encountered this problem. However, I didn't find any references to an easy
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> Thanks in advance,
> Darryl R.

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