Body class

Body class

Represents a container for the main text of a section. To learn more, visit the Aspose.Words Document Object Model (DOM) documentation article.

Remarks

Body can contain Paragraph and Table child nodes.

Body is a section-level node and can only be a child of Section. There can only be one Body in a Section.

A minimal valid Body needs to contain at least one Paragraph.

Inheritance: BodyStoryCompositeNodeNode

Constructors

NameDescription
Body(doc)Initializes a new instance of the Body class.

Properties

NameDescription
countGets the number of immediate children of this node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
custom_node_idSpecifies custom node identifier.
(Inherited from Node)
documentGets the document to which this node belongs.
(Inherited from Node)
first_childGets the first child of the node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
first_paragraphGets the first paragraph in the story.
(Inherited from Story)
has_child_nodesReturns True if this node has any child nodes.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
is_compositeReturns True if this node can contain other nodes.
(Inherited from Node)
last_childGets the last child of the node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
last_paragraphGets the last paragraph in the story.
(Inherited from Story)
next_siblingGets the node immediately following this node.
(Inherited from Node)
node_typeReturns NodeType.BODY.
paragraphsGets a collection of paragraphs that are immediate children of the story.
(Inherited from Story)
parent_nodeGets the immediate parent of this node.
(Inherited from Node)
parent_sectionGets the parent section of this story.
previous_siblingGets the node immediately preceding this node.
(Inherited from Node)
rangeReturns a Range object that represents the portion of a document that is contained in this node.
(Inherited from Node)
story_typeGets the type of this story.
(Inherited from Story)
tablesGets a collection of tables that are immediate children of the story.
(Inherited from Story)

Methods

NameDescription
accept(visitor)Accepts a visitor.
accept_end(visitor)Accepts a visitor for visiting the end of the document’s body.
accept_start(visitor)Accepts a visitor for visiting the start of the document’s body.
append_child(new_child)Adds the specified node to the end of the list of child nodes for this node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
append_paragraph(text)A shortcut method that creates a Paragraph object with optional text and appends it to the end of this object.
(Inherited from Story)
clone(is_clone_children)Creates a duplicate of the node.
(Inherited from Node)
delete_shapes()Deletes all shapes from the text of this story.
(Inherited from Story)
ensure_minimum()If the last child is not a paragraph, creates and appends one empty paragraph.
get_ancestor(ancestor_type)Gets the first ancestor of the specified object type.
(Inherited from Node)
get_ancestor(ancestor_type)Gets the first ancestor of the specified NodeType.
(Inherited from Node)
get_child(node_type, index, is_deep)Returns an Nth child node that matches the specified type.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
get_child_nodes(node_type, is_deep)Returns a live collection of child nodes that match the specified type.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
get_text()Gets the text of this node and of all its children.
(Inherited from Node)
index_of(child)Returns the index of the specified child node in the child node array.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
insert_after(new_child, ref_child)Inserts the specified node immediately after the specified reference node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
insert_before(new_child, ref_child)Inserts the specified node immediately before the specified reference node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
next_pre_order(root_node)Gets next node according to the pre-order tree traversal algorithm.
(Inherited from Node)
node_type_to_string(node_type)A utility method that converts a node type enum value into a user friendly string.
(Inherited from Node)
prepend_child(new_child)Adds the specified node to the beginning of the list of child nodes for this node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
previous_pre_order(root_node)Gets the previous node according to the pre-order tree traversal algorithm.
(Inherited from Node)
remove()Removes itself from the parent.
(Inherited from Node)
remove_all_children()Removes all the child nodes of the current node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
remove_child(old_child)Removes the specified child node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
remove_smart_tags()Removes all SmartTag descendant nodes of the current node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
select_nodes(xpath)Selects a list of nodes matching the XPath expression.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
select_single_node(xpath)Selects the first Node that matches the XPath expression.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
to_string(save_format)Exports the content of the node into a string in the specified format.
(Inherited from Node)
to_string(save_options)Exports the content of the node into a string using the specified save options.
(Inherited from Node)

Examples

Shows how to construct an Aspose.Words document by hand.

doc = aw.Document()
# A blank document contains one section, one body and one paragraph.
# Call the "RemoveAllChildren" method to remove all those nodes,
# and end up with a document node with no children.
doc.remove_all_children()
# This document now has no composite child nodes that we can add content to.
# If we wish to edit it, we will need to repopulate its node collection.
# First, create a new section, and then append it as a child to the root document node.
section = aw.Section(doc)
doc.append_child(section)
# Set some page setup properties for the section.
section.page_setup.section_start = aw.SectionStart.NEW_PAGE
section.page_setup.paper_size = aw.PaperSize.LETTER
# A section needs a body, which will contain and display all its contents
# on the page between the section's header and footer.
body = aw.Body(doc)
section.append_child(body)
# Create a paragraph, set some formatting properties, and then append it as a child to the body.
para = aw.Paragraph(doc)
para.paragraph_format.style_name = 'Heading 1'
para.paragraph_format.alignment = aw.ParagraphAlignment.CENTER
body.append_child(para)
# Finally, add some content to do the document. Create a run,
# set its appearance and contents, and then append it as a child to the paragraph.
run = aw.Run(doc=doc)
run.text = 'Hello World!'
run.font.color = aspose.pydrawing.Color.red
para.append_child(run)
self.assertEqual('Hello World!', doc.get_text().strip())
doc.save(file_name=ARTIFACTS_DIR + 'Section.CreateManually.docx')

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