"""Add comments to a DOCX document. Accepts either an unpacked directory OR a .docx/.dotx file directly. Usage: # Against an unpacked directory (writes satellite files in place) python comment.py unpacked/ "Comment text" python comment.py unpacked/ "Reply text" --parent 0 # Against a .docx directly (extracts, writes satellite files, rezips) python comment.py contract.docx "This cap is too low" -o annotated.docx python comment.py contract.docx "Comment" --id 5 # explicit ID The comment ID is auto-assigned (max existing + 1) unless --id is given. Plain text is XML-escaped automatically; if you pass already-escaped text (e.g. &, ’) use --raw to skip escaping. After running, add markers to word/document.xml so the comment is visible: ... commented content ... """ import argparse import random import shutil import sys import tempfile import zipfile from datetime import datetime, timezone from pathlib import Path import defusedxml.minidom from xml.parsers.expat import ExpatError from xml.sax.saxutils import escape as xml_escape from office.helpers import opc_target, rezip as _rezip, safe_extract as _safe_extract TEMPLATE_DIR = Path(__file__).parent / "templates" NS = { "w": "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main", "w14": "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml", "w15": "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml", "w16cid": "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid", "w16cex": "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex", } COMMENT_XML = """\ {text} """ COMMENT_MARKER_TEMPLATE = """ Add to word/document.xml (markers must be direct children of w:p, never inside w:r): ... """ REPLY_MARKER_TEMPLATE = """ Nest markers inside parent {pid}'s markers (direct children of w:p, never inside w:r): ... """ SMART_QUOTE_ENTITIES = { "“": "“", "”": "”", "‘": "‘", "’": "’", } def _generate_hex_id() -> str: return f"{random.randint(0, 0x7FFFFFFE):08X}" def _encode_smart_quotes(text: str) -> str: for char, entity in SMART_QUOTE_ENTITIES.items(): text = text.replace(char, entity) return text def _append_xml(xml_path: Path, root_tag: str, content: str) -> None: dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(xml_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) root = dom.getElementsByTagName(root_tag)[0] ns_attrs = " ".join(f'xmlns:{k}="{v}"' for k, v in NS.items()) wrapper_dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(f"{content}") for child in wrapper_dom.documentElement.childNodes: if child.nodeType == child.ELEMENT_NODE: root.appendChild(dom.importNode(child, True)) output = _encode_smart_quotes(dom.toxml(encoding="UTF-8").decode("utf-8")) xml_path.write_text(output, encoding="utf-8") def _find_para_id(comments_path: Path, comment_id: int) -> str | None: dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(comments_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) for c in dom.getElementsByTagName("w:comment"): if c.getAttribute("w:id") == str(comment_id): for p in c.getElementsByTagName("w:p"): if pid := p.getAttribute("w14:paraId"): return pid return None def _next_comment_id(comments_path: Path) -> int: if not comments_path.exists(): return 0 dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(comments_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) ids = [] for c in dom.getElementsByTagName("w:comment"): try: ids.append(int(c.getAttribute("w:id"))) except ValueError: pass return (max(ids) + 1) if ids else 0 def _get_next_rid(rels_path: Path) -> int: dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(rels_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) max_rid = 0 for rel in dom.getElementsByTagName("Relationship"): rid = rel.getAttribute("Id") if rid and rid.startswith("rId"): try: max_rid = max(max_rid, int(rid[3:])) except ValueError: pass return max_rid + 1 def _has_relationship(rels_path: Path, target: str) -> bool: dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(rels_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) return any( rel.getAttribute("Target") == target for rel in dom.getElementsByTagName("Relationship") ) def _has_content_type(ct_path: Path, part_name: str) -> bool: dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(ct_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) return any( o.getAttribute("PartName") == part_name for o in dom.getElementsByTagName("Override") ) _COMMENT_RELS = [ ("http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/comments", "comments.xml"), ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2011/relationships/commentsExtended", "commentsExtended.xml"), ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2016/09/relationships/commentsIds", "commentsIds.xml"), ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2018/08/relationships/commentsExtensible", "commentsExtensible.xml"), ] _COMMENT_OVERRIDES = [ ("/word/comments.xml", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.comments+xml"), ("/word/commentsExtended.xml", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.commentsExtended+xml"), ("/word/commentsIds.xml", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.commentsIds+xml"), ("/word/commentsExtensible.xml", "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.commentsExtensible+xml"), ] def _ensure_comment_relationships(unpacked_dir: Path) -> None: rels_path = unpacked_dir / "word" / "_rels" / "document.xml.rels" if not rels_path.exists(): return dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(rels_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) root = dom.documentElement comment_types = {rel_type for rel_type, _ in _COMMENT_RELS} existing = set() for rel in dom.getElementsByTagName("Relationship"): if rel.getAttribute("Type") not in comment_types: continue part = opc_target( rel.getAttribute("Target"), "word/document.xml", rel.getAttribute("TargetMode"), ) if part is not None: existing.add(part) next_rid = _get_next_rid(rels_path) changed = False for rel_type, target in _COMMENT_RELS: if opc_target(target, "word/document.xml") in existing: continue rel = dom.createElement("Relationship") rel.setAttribute("Id", f"rId{next_rid}") rel.setAttribute("Type", rel_type) rel.setAttribute("Target", target) root.appendChild(rel) next_rid += 1 changed = True if changed: rels_path.write_bytes(dom.toxml(encoding="UTF-8")) def _ensure_comment_content_types(unpacked_dir: Path) -> None: ct_path = unpacked_dir / "[Content_Types].xml" if not ct_path.exists(): return dom = defusedxml.minidom.parseString(ct_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) root = dom.documentElement existing = { o.getAttribute("PartName") for o in dom.getElementsByTagName("Override") } changed = False for part_name, content_type in _COMMENT_OVERRIDES: if part_name in existing: continue override = dom.createElement("Override") override.setAttribute("PartName", part_name) override.setAttribute("ContentType", content_type) root.appendChild(override) changed = True if changed: ct_path.write_bytes(dom.toxml(encoding="UTF-8")) def add_comment( unpacked_dir: Path | str, text: str, comment_id: int | None = None, author: str = "Claude", initials: str = "C", parent_id: int | None = None, raw: bool = False, ) -> tuple[int, str, str]: unpacked_dir = Path(unpacked_dir) if not raw: text = xml_escape(text) author = xml_escape(author, {'"': """}) initials = xml_escape(initials, {'"': """}) word = unpacked_dir / "word" if not word.exists(): raise FileNotFoundError(f"{word} not found (not an unpacked .docx?)") comments = word / "comments.xml" if comment_id is None: comment_id = _next_comment_id(comments) parent_para = None if parent_id is not None: parent_para = _find_para_id(comments, parent_id) if comments.exists() else None if not parent_para: raise ValueError(f"parent comment {parent_id} not found") para_id, durable_id = _generate_hex_id(), _generate_hex_id() ts = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") if not comments.exists(): shutil.copy(TEMPLATE_DIR / "comments.xml", comments) _ensure_comment_relationships(unpacked_dir) _ensure_comment_content_types(unpacked_dir) _append_xml( comments, "w:comments", COMMENT_XML.format( id=comment_id, author=author, date=ts, initials=initials, para_id=para_id, text=text, ), ) ext = word / "commentsExtended.xml" if not ext.exists(): shutil.copy(TEMPLATE_DIR / "commentsExtended.xml", ext) if parent_para is not None: _append_xml( ext, "w15:commentsEx", f'', ) else: _append_xml( ext, "w15:commentsEx", f'', ) ids = word / "commentsIds.xml" if not ids.exists(): shutil.copy(TEMPLATE_DIR / "commentsIds.xml", ids) _append_xml( ids, "w16cid:commentsIds", f'', ) extensible = word / "commentsExtensible.xml" if not extensible.exists(): shutil.copy(TEMPLATE_DIR / "commentsExtensible.xml", extensible) _append_xml( extensible, "w16cex:commentsExtensible", f'', ) action = "reply" if parent_id is not None else "comment" return comment_id, para_id, f"Added {action} id={comment_id} (paraId={para_id})" def main() -> None: p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Add a comment to a DOCX (directory or .docx file).") p.add_argument("input", help="Unpacked DOCX directory OR a .docx/.dotx file") p.add_argument("text", help="Comment text (plain text; XML-escaped automatically)") p.add_argument("--raw", action="store_true", help="Treat text as pre-escaped XML (skip automatic escaping)") p.add_argument("--id", type=int, dest="comment_id", help="Comment ID (default: auto-assign as max existing + 1)") p.add_argument("--author", default="Claude", help="Author name") p.add_argument("--initials", default="C", help="Author initials") p.add_argument("--parent", type=int, help="Parent comment ID (makes this a reply)") p.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Output .docx path (only used when input is a .docx; default: overwrite input)") args = p.parse_args() src = Path(args.input) try: if src.is_dir(): if args.output: print("Warning: --output ignored for directory input", file=sys.stderr) cid, _, msg = add_comment( src, args.text, comment_id=args.comment_id, author=args.author, initials=args.initials, parent_id=args.parent, raw=args.raw, ) print(msg) elif src.is_file() and src.suffix.lower() in (".docx", ".dotx"): out = Path(args.output) if args.output else src with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp: tmp_path = Path(tmp) with zipfile.ZipFile(src) as zf: _safe_extract(zf, tmp_path) cid, _, msg = add_comment( tmp_path, args.text, comment_id=args.comment_id, author=args.author, initials=args.initials, parent_id=args.parent, raw=args.raw, ) _rezip(tmp_path, out) print(msg) print(f"Wrote {out} (comment defined; add markers to word/document.xml to make it visible)") else: print(f"Error: {src} is neither a directory nor a .docx/.dotx file", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) except (FileNotFoundError, ValueError, zipfile.BadZipFile, ExpatError) as e: print(f"Error: {e}", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) if args.parent is not None: print(REPLY_MARKER_TEMPLATE.format(pid=args.parent, cid=cid)) else: print(COMMENT_MARKER_TEMPLATE.format(cid=cid)) if __name__ == "__main__": main()