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: Body → Story → CompositeNode → Node
Constructors
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Body(doc) | Initializes a new instance of the Body class. |
Properties
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| count | Gets the number of immediate children of this node. (Inherited from CompositeNode) |
| custom_node_id | Specifies custom node identifier. (Inherited from Node) |
| document | Gets the document to which this node belongs. (Inherited from Node) |
| first_child | Gets the first child of the node. (Inherited from CompositeNode) |
| first_paragraph | Gets the first paragraph in the story. (Inherited from Story) |
| has_child_nodes | Returns True if this node has any child nodes.(Inherited from CompositeNode) |
| is_composite | Returns True if this node can contain other nodes.(Inherited from Node) |
| last_child | Gets the last child of the node. (Inherited from CompositeNode) |
| last_paragraph | Gets the last paragraph in the story. (Inherited from Story) |
| next_sibling | Gets the node immediately following this node. (Inherited from Node) |
| node_type | Returns NodeType.BODY. |
| paragraphs | Gets a collection of paragraphs that are immediate children of the story. (Inherited from Story) |
| parent_node | Gets the immediate parent of this node. (Inherited from Node) |
| parent_section | Gets the parent section of this story. |
| previous_sibling | Gets the node immediately preceding this node. (Inherited from Node) |
| range | Returns a Range object that represents the portion of a document that is contained in this node. (Inherited from Node) |
| story_type | Gets the type of this story. (Inherited from Story) |
| tables | Gets a collection of tables that are immediate children of the story. (Inherited from Story) |
Methods
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 "remove_all_children" 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)
run.text = "Hello World!"
run.font.color = drawing.Color.red
para.append_child(run)
self.assertEqual("Hello World!", doc.get_text().strip())
doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + "Section.create_manually.docx")
See Also
- module aspose.words
- class Story