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Consider Wrapping Clippit Instead of Open-XML-Powertools #16
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[-]Consider Wrapping Clippit Instead of[/-][+]Consider Wrapping Clippit Instead of Open-XML-Powertools[/+]on Dec 23, 2025 @dcjohnston I forked and created this feature: https://github.com/cmartin303/Python-Redlines
Also made a PR for this repo in case the maintainer here wants to accept it.
Hey, totally open to adding new comparison engines. Thanks for pointing me at clippit. Will take a look.
I've also been working on a fork with substantial improvements to comparisons and html redlining I'm planning to use too. Check it out https://github.com/JSv4/Docxodus
Repository: https://github.com/sergey-tihon/Clippit/
Context: This is a more actively maintained fork of Open-XML-Powertools. From my perusal, they haven't changed much about the actual WmlCompare module, but they have upgraded a lot of the underlying dependencies including OpenXML. This is nice, because that stale parsing library is quite brittle and often leads to hard crashes on documents with minor format issues. Here is the relevant clippit PR where this was updated.
Anyways, I'm flagging the existence of Clippit because I think it will lead to better reliability and robustness than the old unmaintained Open-XML-Powertools which runs an extremely dated OpenXML version.