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Posted by bre-europe · 03-03-2019 - 19:10

Is there an inbuilt way to get more information out of a Word document regarding its comments, e.g. where in the document (or: to which word fragments) they were added?

getDOMComments() returns a DOMDocument which could be analysed. The text of the document then also has to be analysed in order to find the references to the comments.Is this encapsulated by a higher level functionality of phpdocx?

Posted by admin · 04-03-2019 - 07:44

Hello,

The Indexer class extracts contents (texts, links and images) from the comments of a DOCX: https://www.phpdocx.com/api-documentation/docxutilities/indexer-parse-word-documents-with-PHP

There's no method to analyze comments, but you could use getDOMComments, that returns the content of the comments xml file as DOMDocument and getDOCXPathQueryInfo to query by comment references to get more information about contents.

Regards.