Rethink Parsing

[dt-woods]

Rather than separate a .docx into new files based on a given heading;

• open the original file and count the occurrences of the specified parsing heading
• keep a tracking index of how many you have parsed (starting with zero and ending with the count found above)
• delete everything from the original file that is not at the specified index (everything up to and everything after)
• "save as" the original file to a new file
• up the index, open the original file again, and repeat until you have created "parsed" versions of the original file

This concept addresses the following limitations of the Python API

1. Not all custom style definitions are easily recreated
2. Images, tables, and hyperlinks are difficult to find and recreate
3. Headers and footers are a whole nother thing