getText method

getText()

Gets the text of this node and of all its children.

getText()

Remarks

The returned string includes all control and special characters as described in ControlChar.

Examples

Shows the difference between calling the GetText and ToString methods on a node.

let doc = new aw.Document();
let builder = new aw.DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.insertField("MERGEFIELD Field");
// GetText will retrieve the visible text as well as field codes and special characters.
expect(doc.getText().trim()).toEqual("\u0013MERGEFIELD Field\u0014«Field»\u0015");
// ToString will give us the document's appearance if saved to a passed save format.
expect(doc.toString(aw.SaveFormat.Text).trim()).toEqual("«Field»");

Shows how to output all paragraphs in a document that are list items.

let doc = new aw.Document();
let builder = new aw.DocumentBuilder(doc);

builder.listFormat.applyNumberDefault();
builder.writeln("Numbered list item 1");
builder.writeln("Numbered list item 2");
builder.writeln("Numbered list item 3");
builder.listFormat.removeNumbers();

builder.listFormat.applyBulletDefault();
builder.writeln("Bulleted list item 1");
builder.writeln("Bulleted list item 2");
builder.writeln("Bulleted list item 3");
builder.listFormat.removeNumbers();

let nodes = [...doc.getChildNodes(aw.NodeType.Paragraph, true)];

for (let node of nodes.filter(p => p.asParagraph().listFormat.isListItem))
{ 
  var para = node.asParagraph();
  console.log(`This paragraph belongs to list ID# ${para.listFormat.list.listId}, number style \"${para.listFormat.listLevel.numberStyle}\"`);
  console.log(`\t\"${para.getText().trim()}\"`);
}

See Also

• module Aspose.Words
• class CompositeNode