open-xml-templatingdocxtemplater
docxtemplater is a library to generate docx/pptx documents from a docx/pptx template. It can replace {placeholders} with data and also supports loops and conditions. The templates can be edited by non-programmers, eg for example your clients.
Note: The CLI will soon be moved to another repository : keep posted on https://github.com/open-xml-templating/docxtemplater-cli
Features
- Replace a {placeholder} by a value
- Use loops: {#users} {name} {/users}
- Use loops in tables to generate columns
- Use expressions {product.unit_price*product.count} with angular Parsing
- Insert custom XML {@rawXml} (for formatted text for example)
Quickstart in Node
Installation: npm install docxtemplater
var fs = require('fs');
var Docxtemplater = require('docxtemplater');
//Load the docx file as a binary
var content = fs
.readFileSync(__dirname + "/input.docx", "binary");
var doc = new Docxtemplater(content);
//set the templateVariables
doc.setData({
"first_name":"Hipp",
"last_name":"Edgar",
"phone":"0652455478",
"description":"New Website"
});
//apply them (replace all occurences of {first_name} by Hipp, ...)
doc.render();
var buf = doc.getZip()
.generate({type:"nodebuffer"});
fs.writeFileSync(__dirname+"/output.docx",buf);You can download input.docx and put it in the same folder than your script.
Quickstart in the browser
Installation
JS download
You can directly download built versions from github : https://github.com/open-xml-templating/docxtemplater-build/tree/master/build
If you download the JS from there, you should use new Docxgen() instead of new Docxtemplater(), because I do not want to bring in a breaking change on a minor version change in the docxtemplater-build repository.
Bower
bower install --save docxtemplaterIf you download the JS from there, you should use new Docxgen() instead of new Docxtemplater(), because I do not want to bring in a breaking change on a minor version change in the docxtemplater-build repository.
Build it yourself
I recommend you to use the npm scripts I wrote (which can be found in the package.json).
git clone git@github.com:edi9999/docxtemplater.git && cd docxtemplater
# git checkout v2.0.0 # Optional
npm install
npm run compile
# Optionally :
# npm run browserify
# npm run uglify:libDocxtemplater will be exported to window.Docxtemplater for easy usage (on some systems, it might export it in window.docxtemplater (see https://github.com/edi9999/docxtemplater/issues/118)\)
Your version of docxtemplater will be in /build (minified and non minified options) and already include all dependencies
Html demo
Create the following html
<html>
<script src="build/docxtemplater.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/FileSaver.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendor/jszip-utils.js"></script>
<!--
Mandatory in IE 6, 7, 8 and 9.
-->
<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="examples/vendor/jszip-utils-ie.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script>
var loadFile=function(url,callback){
JSZipUtils.getBinaryContent(url,callback);
}
loadFile("examples/tagExample.docx",function(err,content){
if (err) { throw e};
doc=new Docxtemplater(content);
doc.setData( {"first_name":"Hipp",
"last_name":"Edgar",
"phone":"0652455478",
"description":"New Website"
}
) //set the templateVariables
doc.render() //apply them (replace all occurences of {first_name} by Hipp, ...)
out=doc.getZip().generate({type:"blob"}) //Output the document using Data-URI
saveAs(out,"output.docx")
})
</script>
</html>Documentation
The full documentation of the latest version can be found on read the docs.
See CHANGELOG.md for information about how to migrate from older versions.
Similar libraries
They are a few similar libraries that work with docx, here’s a list of those I know a bit about:
- docx4j :JAVA, this is probably the biggest docx library out there. They is no built in templating engine, but you can generate your docx yourself programmatically
- docx.js: Javascript in the browser, you can create (not modify) your docx from scratch, but only do very simple things such as adding non formatted text
- xlsx-templater : its working quite well, does the same as here but for xlsx
Modules
Functionality can be added with modules. They is yet no doc for the modules because it is not completely mature yet, but you can open an issue if you have any question about it.
Here is the list of existing modules:
- Chart Module using the syntax:
{$chart}, user contributed https://github.com/prog666/docxtemplater-chart-module - Image module using the syntax:
{%image}, https://github.com/open-xml-templating/docxtemplater-image-module - Hyperlink module using the syntax:
{^link}, https://github.com/sujith3g/docxtemplater-link-module
Professional Support
I can give your company support for installing, extending, answering support questions, or maintainning your app that runs docxtemplater. You can find my email address on my profile