[FME 2025] How write .docx files to html pages

What the Word Reader actually does is read the document into FME's rich text model, preserving things like: Paragraphs, Headings, Lists, Tables, Formatting runs and Images (optionally)

The MSWordStyler is what converts FME's internal Word formatting into HTML/CSS styling attributes that the HTML writer can understand.The transformer generates HTML fragments from the Word formatting information but it probably does it poorly !

The trick would be to inspect all the Format attributes…and organise these into appropriate html_content parts. Even write out a CSV to start with prior to trying html writer

Another option is to use PythonCaller and a library that has library smarts built in. e.g. mammoth

import mammoth

with open(docx_path, "rb") as docx_file:
    result = mammoth.convert_to_html(docx_file)

html = result.value