Aspose converting bullet lists to text

[AyaanK45]

Mounting Precautions1.docx

I'm trying to convert this to html but Aspose instead makes it a text, so in html this is what I get

Instead of converting list to list tags I get bullet as a text character instead, with some empty spaces before text . Please help.

[AlexNosk]

@AyaanK45 You can specify ExportListLabels.ByHtmlTags in HtmlSaveOptions.ExportListLabels property.

[AyaanK45]

Yes I have tried ExportListLabels.ByHtmlTags , the nbsp are still there after ExportListLabels.ByHtmlTags.

[AlexNosk]

@AyaanK45 I used the following code for testing:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.docx");
HtmlSaveOptions opt = new HtmlSaveOptions();
opt.ExportListLabels = ExportListLabels.ByHtmlTags;
opt.PrettyFormat = true;
doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.html", opt);

List is exported using <ul> and <li> tags:

<ul type="disc" class="awlist1" style="margin:0pt; padding-left:0pt">
	<li style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt; text-align:justify; widows:0; orphans:0; font-family:Arial; -aw-list-padding-sml:10.75pt">
		<span style="width:10.75pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block; -aw-import:ignore">&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0; </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Use the provided safety guidelines, equipment, and procedures diligently to ensure that all team members can work efficiently while minimizing the risk of accidents, equipment damage.</span>
	</li>
	<li style="margin-left:36pt; text-indent:-18pt; text-align:justify; widows:0; orphans:0; -aw-list-padding-sml:10.75pt">
		<span style="width:10.75pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block; -aw-import:ignore">&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0; </span><span>You should carefully review all instructions, gather the necessary tools and materials, and follow each step precisely to guarantee that the assembly process is completed correctly.</span>
	</li>
</ul>

Spans like this <span style="width:10.75pt; font:7pt 'Times New Roman'; display:inline-block; -aw-import:ignore">&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0; </span> are used for roundtrip and to make the output look closer to the source MS Word document.

[AyaanK45]

Could you please tell me why this issue is specific to this doc? If I create a doc with list from scratch then this issue is not there. By the way, I got this doc from someone else so I don't know how this was created. Just curious why aspose is interpreting this list differently than other lists. And maybe it can help me fix this better from my end.

[AlexNosk]

@AyaanK45 It looks like the reason is tabstop used in the document. I have simplified document to the following:
in.docx

If reset default tab stop in the document to zero, there is no leading non-breaking spaces:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.docx");
doc.DefaultTabStop = 0;

HtmlSaveOptions opt = new HtmlSaveOptions();
opt.ExportListLabels = ExportListLabels.ByHtmlTags;
opt.PrettyFormat = true;
doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.html", opt);

<ul type="disc" class="awlist1" style="margin:0pt; padding-left:0pt">
	<li style="font-family:Arial">
		<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">test</span>
	</li>
	<li>
		<span>test</span>
	</li>
</ul>