1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/office-xml-reader.js b/lib/office-xml-reader.js
index 011ab4d..78d1299 100644
--- a/lib/office-xml-reader.js
+++ b/lib/office-xml-reader.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 var xmlreader = require("./xmlreader");
 
 
-exports.read = read;
+exports.readXmlFromZipFile = readXmlFromZipFile;
 
 var xmlNamespaceMap = {
     "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main": "w",
@@ -15,3 +15,13 @@ var xmlNamespaceMap = {
 function read(xmlString) {
     return xmlreader.read(xmlString, xmlNamespaceMap);
 }
+
+
+function readXmlFromZipFile(docxFile, path) {
+    if (docxFile.exists(path)) {
+        return docxFile.read(path, "utf-8")
+            .then(read);
+    } else {
+        return null;
+    }
+}