SmartArt Extraction

[ivanluk914]

Hello, I would like to inquire whether SmartArt extraction is supported in this package. I am currently attempting to extract the text and hierarchy from SmartArt but have yet to find a solution. Any guidance or assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

[scanny]

Not directly, no. Basically there wasn't enough call for it and there was no documentation on that aspect of the schema, at the time at least.

As I recall, the SmartArt XML is held directly in the GraphicFrame shape in which it appears, like tables are. So you could get a reference to the XML element with shp._graphicFrame and then parse that directly using lxml methods. I expect that's what I would do if I needed something in a pinch.

print(shp._graphicFrame.xml) will give you a look at what the underlying XML looks like, then XPath is your friend.