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Keep CKEditor formatting when exporting to MS Word

I'm trying to export a text area (for which I use ckeditor) into a Word document. I'm using JSP, and setting HTTP headers of a target page to receive the textarea value in request scope:
<%#page contentType="application/vnd.ms-word"%>
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=responseLetter.doc")
...
<%=textAreaReqScopeValue%>
However, I lose formatting and style of my source ckeditor (example below) when the Word document has been generated:
<p>Dear Anonymous,</p><p>This is in response to your <strong><em><u>request regarding your continued ...
Is there any way to keep the formatting, either by generating the Word document or through CKEditor?

Using googoose.js or html-doc.js solved my problem. An open xml library should have been used to process html tags for the ms-word output.

JavaFx html formatted text in pdf using iText with formatation

Is it possible to set a formatted HTML-Text (Color, Alignment, ...) from a HTMLEditor to an "editable" PDF using iText.
I didn't find anything on the internet.
Thanks.

The easiest way of doing this is (as Amedee suggested) using pdfHTML.
It's an iText7 add-on that converts HTML5 (+CSS3) into pdf syntax.
The code is pretty straightforward:
HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(
"<b>This text should be written in bold.</b>", // html to be converted
new PdfWriter(
new File("C://users/user2002/output.pdf") // destination file
)
);
To learn more, go to https://itextpdf.com/itext7/pdfHTML

I found a Solution in this post using The Flying Saucer: this

parse text from xml

I have following link
https://hero.epa.gov/hero/ws/swift.cfc?method=getProjectRIS&project_id=993&getallabstracts=true
I want to parse this xml to get only text, like
Provider: HERO - 2.xx
DBvendor=EPA
Text-encoding=UTF-8
How can I parse it ?

Well, it's not a text file, it's an HTML file. If you open a file in browser and select view source you will be able to see text enclosed in <char> tags.
When it's opened in browser, these tags and other HTML content is interpreted and output is rendered on the page (that's why it looks like a text). If you want to implement similar behavior in Java then you should look into PhantomJS and/or JSoup examples.

It looks like a text file but it is an XML file and the browser just displays its text content.
To verify right click and look at the page source.

You can use a library like Jsoup for parsing the file and getting the contents.
https://jsoup.org/cookbook/introduction/parsing-a-document

How to display Microsoft word document on html page using jsp?

I need to display Microsoft Doc on my web page and then parse the doc for further process.

Use something like: http://poi.apache.org/document/index.html
to parse your word document and extract the data. Then render it as HTML to client browser.
But it sound poor to do that. Better would be to use a format which can directly displayed in the browser like PDF. Then you don't have to parse between the word doc styles and your webpage styles.

You can use Apache Poi to parse the doc file.

Creating a dynamic PDF in Java

This is not a duplicate question. I had searched and tried many options before posting this question.
We have a web page, in which user should be able to input data in text boxes, text areas, images and also Rich Text editors. This data has to be filled in an existing report, like filling the blanks.
I was able to achieve the functionality using Apache FOP when the user input is simple text. But Apache FOP doesn't work if the user input is Rich Text(html format). FOP will not render html, and it just pushes the html code(ex: <strong> XYZ /strong>) into the pdf.
I tried using iText, but the setback here is that even though iText supports rendering of html to pdf, it is not able to place the images, that are included in <img> tags, in the pdf file.
I can try to create a pdf using iText api block by block, but the problem is rich text data entered by the user can not be embedded between the code since building pdf block by block and html to pdf can not be done together in iText. Or at least that is what I think from my experience.
Is there any other way to create a pdf file from java with images, rich text rendering as it is, headers and footers?

iText provides the capability to convert HTML Data to Pdf. Below is the snippet to do it :
Lets assume the html data is available as Input Stream (If its a String then we can convert it to InputStream using Apache Commons - IOUtils)
InputStream htmlData; // Html Data that needs to converted to Pdf
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, outputStream);
document.open();
// convert the HTML with the built-in convenience method
XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().parseXHtml(pdfWriter, document, htmlData);
document.close();
// outputStream now has the required pdf data

I am working as Social Media Developer for Aspose and to add rich text to a form field in PDF file, you can try our Aspose.Pdf for Java API. Check the following sample code:
// Open a PDF document
com.aspose.pdf.Document pdfDocument = new com.aspose.pdf.Document("c:\\data\\input.pdf");
//Find Rich TextBox field using Field Name
RichTextBoxField textBoxField1 = (RichTextBoxField)pdfDocument.getForm().get("textbox1");
//Set the field value
textBoxField1.setValue("<strong> XYZ </strong>");
// Save the modified PDF
pdfDocument.save("c:\\data\\output2.pdf");

I am not trying to market or promote this product. This api actually solved our problem so thought of mentioning it as it might help fellow developers. please let me know if this is against your policy.
I finally realized that the solution for my requirement can not be achieved with either FOP, iText, Aspose, Flying Saucer, JODConverter.
I found a paid api Sferyx. This api allows to render a very complex html to pdf almost preserving the original style. It also renders the images included in the html. We are still exploring this api and will post what other features this api provides.