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Posted: **Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:51 pm**

Suppose I have a simple HTML file like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>Title</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="../style/stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body class="b">
    <p id="p-001" class="par">Content</p>
    <p class="par">Some bla</p>
    <!-- A reference to a paragraph in a neighboring file. -->
    <p id="id=p-003" class="par">…<a href="../text/page-2.html#p-021" class="link">Link</a>…</p>
    …
    <!-- An internal reference to a paragraph in this file. -->
    <p id="id=p-009" class="par">…<a href="#p-001" class="link">Top</a>…</p>
    …
  </body>
</html>

Notice how some paragraphs (and in HTML potentially many/most elements) have an “id” attribute here. The third paragraph then contains a link to a paragraph in a different file.

Loading this file into Office and browsing around its DOM, I am unable to find where the “id” attribute is stored for the paragraph. Not quite sure which interface or service would give me access to that value—if any. Some help would be good, short of digging into the source code for the HTML filter…

Posted: **Sat Dec 08, 2018 2:47 pm**

I personally would use a dedicated html editor like Blue Griffon available at http://bluegriffon.org/ instead.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:25 pm**

In an administrative query the OP asked if "he could delete postings that were irrelevant to him".

I replied as follows

You may only delete your own postings, which we discourage, as it is antisocial and contrary to the spirit of the Forum.

If you feel a posting is irrelevant to you simply ignore it; in OO there are often many ways to achieve a given target - your "irelevancy" may be someone else's lifeline.

I agree with YODA that a dedicated HTML editor may be best; OO does not generate good HTML code.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:22 pm**

I wasn’t asking about producing HTML code, but about reading HTML code into Office. To answer the above question, it seems that HTML elements with an `id` attribute produce a bookmark in the DOM.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:41 pm**

YOU are the developer of your program. Lookup the Open Document Format specification and the content.xml of an example document where you inserted a bookmark.

Posted: **Fri Aug 30, 2019 2:11 am**

If you interested in the DOM and the ECMAScript/JavaScript methods for working with it, I would look at http://www.w3schools.com. No two elements in the same document can have the same id value, and the element is located by using document.getElementById(id_value) ( https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom_elements.asp ) where id_value is the text string that is the value of the id value of the element. The DOM object for an html element is an instantiation of Element.prototype ( https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_all.asp ) and it has a defined set of methods and properties. However, JavaScript uses weak typing, which means that the relationships between superclasses, subclasses, and instantiations are much looser than in Java. I'm not sure it this helps.

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