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I have an HTML with thefigure, img and figcaption tags and I would like to get them converted to a Microsoft Word document.

The image referred by img should be inserted in the Word document and the figcaption should be converted to its caption (also keeping the figure number).

I have tried to open the html with Word 2013 but the figcaption is not converted as the figure caption but it is just a simple text below the image.

Is there any minimum working sample to get it done? I had a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats#Word_XML_Format_example but it is too verbose to grab just an Hello world sample.

figure .image {
    width: 100%;
}

figure {
    text-align: center;
    display: table;
    max-width: 30%; /* demo; set some amount (px or %) if you can */
    margin: 10px auto; /* not needed unless you want centered */
}
article {
  counter-reset: figures;
}

figure {
  counter-increment: figures;
}

figcaption:before {
  content: "Fig. " counter(figures) " - "; /* For I18n support; use data-counter-string. */
}



Il monte Cervino.




La nuvola che spesso è vicino alla vetta.

I tried with pandoc on Windows

pandoc -f html -t docx -o hello.docx hello.html

but with no luck, as you can see the "Fig. 1" and "Fig. 2" is missing:

My pandoc is:

c:	emp>.\pandoc.exe -v
pandoc.exe 1.19.2.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.0.4, texmath 0.9, skylighting 0.1.1.4
Default user data directory: C:\Users\ale\AppData\Roaming\pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2016 John MacFarlane
Web:  http://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness
for a particular purpose.

Edit 1

It is fine also to use some C# to get it done. Maybe I can transform the HTML to some XML Word format by means of a C# program.

user_1466973 · Answer

To expand on Rachel Gallan's excellent find; the following is code I think might be used to run the converter on a string that contains a full HTML page generated by the Loop:

Would this work to convert output from a process that creates a page (the loop)? (Javascript and CSS loaded with wp_enqueue.. commands previous to calling this code)

    loadHTML($x, LIBXML_NOERROR); // supress errors
?>

...Rick...

from HTML <figure> and <figcaption> to Microsoft Word

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