What I actually want to do is when the user uploads the DOCX file, Pandoc converts the file to HTML and shows it to the HTML editor for additional editing by the user and converts it back to DOCX.

After converting to Html, the system (my app) will replace current cites in HTML cite i.e. [1] with the key from the .bib file (like in my case [@test1] so the citeproc will know how to process it.

On Monday, November 7, 2022 at 3:29:29 PM UTC+1 Albert Krewinkel wrote:

Hi Mladen,

Mladen Babic <mladen...@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to reference cites from the .bib file in the HTML but
> without success. The function perfectly works for Markdown, so my
> question is does the citeproc work on other formats except for MD?
>
> Here are some examples which I use:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang="en">
> <body>
> Test [@test1]
> </body>
> </html>

The file is parsed as HTML, but body above uses Markdown syntax; it's
not possible to use that syntax in HTML. However, Markdown can contain
HTML, so you could try with `pandoc --from=markdown ...`.

Note, however, that pandoc conversions are lossy in general. Going from
HTML to HTML might not do what you expect.

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