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Scrape document.xml with Python's BeautifulSoup
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bs-scrape-docx.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
docx_form = 'form_example/word/document.xml'
infile = open(docx_form, 'r')
contents = infile.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(contents, 'xml')
xps = soup.find_all('wps:txbx')
for xp in xps:
print(xp.get_text())
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