from .. import documents def read_document_xml_element( element, body_reader, notes=None, comments=None): if notes is None: notes = [] if comments is None: comments = [] body_element = element.find_child("w:body") if body_element is None: raise ValueError("Could not find the body element: are you sure this is a docx file?") return body_reader.read_all(body_element.children) \ .map(lambda children: documents.document( children, notes=documents.notes(notes), comments=comments ))