HTML tags in generated docx

[Michael]

I would like to ask if it is possible to enter HTML tags in the generated text when generating a docx document, e.g. string "Sample text with <b>bold</b> tag".
I would like the word "bold" to be bold after generating the document. Currently, in my docx4j program, it simply writes tags to the document without recognizing them as HTML tags.

[jason]

It depends what approach you are using for document generation.

OpenDoPE content control data binding will convert XHTML input (where the sdt tag so directs); it does this using docx4j-ImportXHTML.

Other approaches to document generation may not do this. For example, docx4j's variable replacement doesn't do it.

[Michael]

I'm using docx4j's variable replacement.
I think docx4j-ImportXHTML will be the best solution.
I am a docx beginner and I thought that docx4j-ImportXHTML is for generating a document from HTML code and cannot be used to save a regular String with HTML tags.