Creating an Adobe Experience Manager HTL Component that parses MS Word Documents

You can develop an Adobe Experience Manager HTL (used to be known as Sightly) component that can parse and display content from MS Word documents. Some Experience Manager use cases require integrating MS Word documents with Experience Manager. The HTL component developed in this article parses an MS Word document and displays the content in an HTL component, as shown in the following illustration.

Consider the following Word Doc.


You can develop a custom HTL component to parse this Word doc and display the data on an AEM web page, as shown in the following illustration.


To parse data from an MS Word document, you use the Apache POI API. To read this Experience Manager development article, click https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem_msdoc.html.