Replace bookmark text in Word file using Open XML SDK

Here’s my approach after using you guys as inspiration:

  IDictionary<String, BookmarkStart> bookmarkMap = 
      new Dictionary<String, BookmarkStart>();

  foreach (BookmarkStart bookmarkStart in file.MainDocumentPart.RootElement.Descendants<BookmarkStart>())
  {
      bookmarkMap[bookmarkStart.Name] = bookmarkStart;
  }

  foreach (BookmarkStart bookmarkStart in bookmarkMap.Values)
  {
      Run bookmarkText = bookmarkStart.NextSibling<Run>();
      if (bookmarkText != null)
      {
          bookmarkText.GetFirstChild<Text>().Text = "blah";
      }
  }

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