previous_sibling property

Node.previous_sibling property

Gets the node immediately preceding this node.

@property
def previous_sibling(self) -> aspose.words.Node:
    ...

Remarks

If there is no preceding node, a None is returned.

Examples

Shows how to use of methods of Node and CompositeNode to remove a section before the last section in the document.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc)
builder.writeln('Section 1 text.')
builder.insert_break(aw.BreakType.SECTION_BREAK_CONTINUOUS)
builder.writeln('Section 2 text.')
# Both sections are siblings of each other.
last_section = doc.last_child.as_section()
first_section = last_section.previous_sibling.as_section()
# Remove a section based on its sibling relationship with another section.
if last_section.previous_sibling != None:
    doc.remove_child(first_section)
# The section we removed was the first one, leaving the document with only the second.
self.assertEqual('Section 2 text.', doc.get_text().strip())

See Also

Node.parent_node property Node.range property