Html to Docx issues

[patrickbrouwers]

Thanks for this great package!

I'm having issues converting html to docx.

I get user input in Markdown and convert this to html with https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark

Input:

text
text

text
text

Gets converted to:

<p>text
text</p>

<p>text
text</p>

In the Word-document it will look like:

text text
text text

This behaviour seems logical when I read the code. All linebreaks get deleted and html linebreaks (<br /> get ignored).

By adding a method that parses the br's (I added with nl2br), it works just like I would expect.

I'm wondering if this is the best way of handling it (and if this could be added to the package) or if there's a better way of handling it?

Any help would be appreciated. Happy to make a pull request if needed.

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[patrickbrouwers]

In the meantime I found out that (for my use case) this is the best solution:

/**
     * Parse paragraph node
     *
     * @param \DOMNode $node
     * @param \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\AbstractContainer $element
     * @param array &$styles
     * @return \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\TextRun
     */
    private static function parseParagraph($node, $element, &$styles)
    {
        $styles['paragraph'] = self::parseInlineStyle($node, $styles['paragraph']);
        $newElement = $element->addTextRun($styles['paragraph']);
        $newElement->addTextBreak(1);

        return $newElement;
    }