com.aspose.words
Class FieldStart

java.lang.Object
  Node
      Inline
          SpecialChar
              FieldChar
                  com.aspose.words.FieldStart

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable

public class FieldStart 
extends FieldChar

/**
 * Retrieves the field code from a field.
 *
 * @param fieldStart The field start of the field which to gather the field code from.
 */
private static String getFieldCode(FieldStart fieldStart) throws Exception
{
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

    for (Node node = fieldStart; node != null && node.getNodeType() != NodeType.FIELD_SEPARATOR &&
        node.getNodeType() != NodeType.FIELD_END; node = node.nextPreOrder(node.getDocument()))
    {
        // Use text only of Run nodes to avoid duplication.
        if (node.getNodeType() == NodeType.RUN)
            builder.append(node.getText());
    }
    return builder.toString();
}

/**
 * Removes the Field from the document.
 *
 * @param fieldStart The field start node of the field to remove.
 */
private static void removeField(FieldStart fieldStart) throws Exception
{
    Node currentNode = fieldStart;
    boolean isRemoving = true;
    while (currentNode != null && isRemoving)
    {
        if (currentNode.getNodeType() == NodeType.FIELD_END)
            isRemoving = false;

        Node nextNode = currentNode.nextPreOrder(currentNode.getDocument());
        currentNode.remove();
        currentNode = nextNode;
    }
}

package Examples;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import com.aspose.words.Document;
import com.aspose.words.NodeList;
import com.aspose.words.FieldStart;
import com.aspose.words.FieldType;
import com.aspose.words.NodeType;
import com.aspose.words.Run;
import com.aspose.words.Node;

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;


/**
 * Shows how to replace hyperlinks in a Word document.
 */
public class ExReplaceHyperlinks extends ExBase
{
    /**
     * Finds all hyperlinks in a Word document and changes their URL and display name.
     */
    public void replaceHyperlinks() throws Exception
    {
        // Specify your document name here.
        Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "ReplaceHyperlinks.doc");

        // Hyperlinks in a Word documents are fields, select all field start nodes so we can find the hyperlinks.
        NodeList fieldStarts = doc.selectNodes("//FieldStart");
        for (FieldStart fieldStart : (Iterable<FieldStart>) fieldStarts)
        {
            if (fieldStart.getFieldType() == FieldType.FIELD_HYPERLINK)
            {
                // The field is a hyperlink field, use the "facade" class to help to deal with the field.
                Hyperlink hyperlink = new Hyperlink(fieldStart);

                // Some hyperlinks can be local (links to bookmarks inside the document), ignore these.
                if (hyperlink.isLocal())
                    continue;

                // The Hyperlink class allows to set the target URL and the display name
                // of the link easily by setting the properties.
                hyperlink.setTarget(NEW_URL);
                hyperlink.setName(NEW_NAME);
            }
        }

        doc.save(getMyDir() + "ReplaceHyperlinks Out.doc");
    }

    private static final String NEW_URL = "http://www.aspose.com";
    private static final String NEW_NAME = "Aspose - The .NET & Java Component Publisher";
}


/**
 * This "facade" class makes it easier to work with a hyperlink field in a Word document.
 *
 * A hyperlink is represented by a HYPERLINK field in a Word document. A field in Aspose.Words
 * consists of several nodes and it might be difficult to work with all those nodes directly.
 * Note this is a simple implementation and will work only if the hyperlink code and name
 * each consist of one Run only.
 *
 * [FieldStart][Run - field code][FieldSeparator][Run - field result][FieldEnd]
 *
 * The field code contains a string in one of these formats:
 * HYPERLINK "url"
 * HYPERLINK \l "bookmark name"
 *
 * The field result contains text that is displayed to the user.
 */
class Hyperlink
{
    Hyperlink(FieldStart fieldStart) throws Exception
    {
        if (fieldStart == null)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("fieldStart");
        if (fieldStart.getFieldType() != FieldType.FIELD_HYPERLINK)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Field start type must be FieldHyperlink.");

        mFieldStart = fieldStart;

        // Find the field separator node.
        mFieldSeparator = findNextSibling(mFieldStart, NodeType.FIELD_SEPARATOR);
        if (mFieldSeparator == null)
            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot find field separator.");

        // Find the field end node. Normally field end will always be found, but in the example document
        // there happens to be a paragraph break included in the hyperlink and this puts the field end
        // in the next paragraph. It will be much more complicated to handle fields which span several
        // paragraphs correctly, but in this case allowing field end to be null is enough for our purposes.
        mFieldEnd = findNextSibling(mFieldSeparator, NodeType.FIELD_END);

        // Field code looks something like [ HYPERLINK "http:\\www.myurl.com" ], but it can consist of several runs.
        String fieldCode = getTextSameParent(mFieldStart.getNextSibling(), mFieldSeparator);
        Matcher matcher = G_REGEX.matcher(fieldCode.trim());
        matcher.find();
        mIsLocal = (matcher.group(1) != null) && (matcher.group(1).length() > 0);    //The link is local if \l is present in the field code.
        mTarget = matcher.group(2).toString();
    }

    /**
     * Gets or sets the display name of the hyperlink.
     */
    String getName() throws Exception
    {
        return getTextSameParent(mFieldSeparator, mFieldEnd);
    }
    void setName(String value) throws Exception
    {
        // Hyperlink display name is stored in the field result which is a Run
        // node between field separator and field end.
        Run fieldResult = (Run)mFieldSeparator.getNextSibling();
        fieldResult.setText(value);

        // But sometimes the field result can consist of more than one run, delete these runs.
        removeSameParent(fieldResult.getNextSibling(), mFieldEnd);
    }

    /**
     * Gets or sets the target url or bookmark name of the hyperlink.
     */
    String getTarget() throws Exception
    {
        return mTarget;
    }
    void setTarget(String value) throws Exception
    {
        mTarget = value;
        updateFieldCode();
    }

    /**
     * True if the hyperlink's target is a bookmark inside the document. False if the hyperlink is a url.
     */
    boolean isLocal() throws Exception
    {
        return mIsLocal;
    }
    void isLocal(boolean value) throws Exception
    {
        mIsLocal = value;
        updateFieldCode();
    }

    private void updateFieldCode() throws Exception
    {
        // Field code is stored in a Run node between field start and field separator.
        Run fieldCode = (Run)mFieldStart.getNextSibling();
        fieldCode.setText(java.text.MessageFormat.format("HYPERLINK {0}\"{1}\"", ((mIsLocal) ? "\\l " : ""), mTarget));

        // But sometimes the field code can consist of more than one run, delete these runs.
        removeSameParent(fieldCode.getNextSibling(), mFieldSeparator);
    }

    /**
     * Goes through siblings starting from the start node until it finds a node of the specified type or null.
     */
    private static Node findNextSibling(Node startNode, int nodeType) throws Exception
    {
        for (Node node = startNode; node != null; node = node.getNextSibling())
        {
            if (node.getNodeType() == nodeType)
                return node;
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves text from start up to but not including the end node.
     */
    private static String getTextSameParent(Node startNode, Node endNode) throws Exception
    {
        if ((endNode != null) && (startNode.getParentNode() != endNode.getParentNode()))
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Start and end nodes are expected to have the same parent.");

        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
        for (Node child = startNode; !child.equals(endNode); child = child.getNextSibling())
            builder.append(child.getText());

        return builder.toString();
    }

    /**
     * Removes nodes from start up to but not including the end node.
     * Start and end are assumed to have the same parent.
     */
    private static void removeSameParent(Node startNode, Node endNode) throws Exception
    {
        if ((endNode != null) && (startNode.getParentNode() != endNode.getParentNode()))
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Start and end nodes are expected to have the same parent.");

        Node curChild = startNode;
        while ((curChild != null) && (curChild != endNode))
        {
            Node nextChild = curChild.getNextSibling();
            curChild.remove();
            curChild = nextChild;
        }
    }

    private final Node mFieldStart;
    private final Node mFieldSeparator;
    private final Node mFieldEnd;
    private boolean mIsLocal;
    private String mTarget;

    /**
     * RK I am notoriously bad at regexes. It seems I don't understand their way of thinking.
     */
    private static final Pattern G_REGEX = Pattern.compile(
        "\\S+" +            // one or more non spaces HYPERLINK or other word in other languages
        "\\s+" +            // one or more spaces
        "(?:\"\"\\s+)?" +    // non capturing optional "" and one or more spaces, found in one of the customers files.
        "(\\\\l\\s+)?" +    // optional \l flag followed by one or more spaces
        "\"" +                // one apostrophe
        "([^\"]+)" +        // one or more chars except apostrophe (hyperlink target)
        "\""                // one closing apostrophe
        );
}

public DocumentBase getDocument()

Gets the document to which this node belongs.

The node always belongs to a document even if it has just been created and not yet added to the tree, or if it has been removed from the tree.

Example:

Shows that when you create any node, it requires a document that will own the node.

// Open a file from disk.
Document doc = new Document();

// Creating a new node of any type requires a document passed into the constructor.
Paragraph para = new Paragraph(doc);

// The new paragraph node does not yet have a parent.
System.out.println("Paragraph has no parent node: " + (para.getParentNode() == null));

// But the paragraph node knows its document.
System.out.println("Both nodes' documents are the same: " + (para.getDocument() == doc));

// The fact that a node always belongs to a document allows us to access and modify
// properties that reference the document-wide data such as styles or lists.
para.getParagraphFormat().setStyleName("Heading 1");

// Now add the paragraph to the main text of the first section.
doc.getFirstSection().getBody().appendChild(para);

// The paragraph node is now a child of the Body node.
System.out.println("Paragraph has a parent node: " + (para.getParentNode() != null));

public int getFieldType()

Returns the type of the field. The value of the property is FieldType integer constant.

Example:

Shows how to find the type of field that is represented by a node which is derived from FieldChar.

FieldChar fieldStart = (FieldChar)doc.getChild(NodeType.FIELD_START, 0, true);
int type = fieldStart.getFieldType();

public Font getFont()

Provides access to the font formatting of this object.

Example:

Creates a simple document from scratch using the Aspose.Words object model.

// Create an "empty" document. Note that like in Microsoft Word,
// the empty document has one section, body and one paragraph in it.
Document doc = new Document();

// This truly makes the document empty. No sections (not possible in Microsoft Word).
doc.removeAllChildren();

// Create a new section node.
// Note that the section has not yet been added to the document,
// but we have to specify the parent document.
Section section = new Section(doc);

// Append the section to the document.
doc.appendChild(section);

// Lets set some properties for the section.
section.getPageSetup().setSectionStart(SectionStart.NEW_PAGE);
section.getPageSetup().setPaperSize(PaperSize.LETTER);


// The section that we created is empty, lets populate it. The section needs at least the Body node.
Body body = new Body(doc);
section.appendChild(body);


// The body needs to have at least one paragraph.
// Note that the paragraph has not yet been added to the document,
// but we have to specify the parent document.
// The parent document is needed so the paragraph can correctly work
// with styles and other document-wide information.
Paragraph para = new Paragraph(doc);
body.appendChild(para);

// We can set some formatting for the paragraph
para.getParagraphFormat().setStyleName("Heading 1");
para.getParagraphFormat().setAlignment(ParagraphAlignment.CENTER);


// So far we have one empty paragraph in the document.
// The document is valid and can be saved, but lets add some text before saving.
// Create a new run of text and add it to our paragraph.
Run run = new Run(doc);
run.setText("Hello World!");
run.getFont().setColor(Color.RED);
para.appendChild(run);


// As a matter of interest, you can retrieve text of the whole document and
// see that \x000c is automatically appended. \x000c is the end of section character.
System.out.println(doc.getText());

// Save the document.
doc.save(getMyDir() + "Section.CreateFromScratch Out.doc");

public boolean isComposite()

Returns true if this node can contain other nodes.

This method returns false as Node cannot have child nodes.

Example:

Shows how to efficiently visit all direct and indirect children of a composite node.

public void recurseAllNodes() throws Exception
{
    // Open a document.
    Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Node.RecurseAllNodes.doc");

    // Invoke the recursive function that will walk the tree.
    traverseAllNodes(doc);
}

/**
 * A simple function that will walk through all children of a specified node recursively
 * and print the type of each node to the screen.
 */
public void traverseAllNodes(CompositeNode parentNode) throws Exception
{
    // This is the most efficient way to loop through immediate children of a node.
    for (Node childNode = parentNode.getFirstChild(); childNode != null; childNode = childNode.getNextSibling())
    {
        // Do some useful work.
        System.out.println(Node.nodeTypeToString(childNode.getNodeType()));

        // Recurse into the node if it is a composite node.
        if (childNode.isComposite())
            traverseAllNodes((CompositeNode)childNode);
    }
}

public boolean isDeleteRevision()

Returns true if this object was deleted in Microsoft Word while change tracking was enabled.

public boolean isFormatRevision()

Returns true if formatting of the object was changed in Microsoft Word while change tracking was enabled.

public boolean isInsertRevision()

Returns true if this object was inserted in Microsoft Word while change tracking was enabled.

public boolean isLocked() / public void isLocked(boolean value)

Gets or sets whether the parent field is locked (should not recalculate its result).

public Node getNextSibling()

Gets the node immediately following this node.

If there is no next node, a null is returned.

Example:

Shows how to enumerate immediate child nodes of a composite node using NextSibling. In this example we enumerate all paragraphs of a section body.

// Get the section that we want to work on.
Section section = doc.getSections().get(0);
Body body = section.getBody();

// Loop starting from the first child until we reach null.
for (Node node = body.getFirstChild(); node != null; node = node.getNextSibling())
{
    // Output the types of the nodes that we come across.
    System.out.println(Node.nodeTypeToString(node.getNodeType()));
}

Example:

Shows how to efficiently visit all direct and indirect children of a composite node.

public void recurseAllNodes() throws Exception
{
    // Open a document.
    Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Node.RecurseAllNodes.doc");

    // Invoke the recursive function that will walk the tree.
    traverseAllNodes(doc);
}

/**
 * A simple function that will walk through all children of a specified node recursively
 * and print the type of each node to the screen.
 */
public void traverseAllNodes(CompositeNode parentNode) throws Exception
{
    // This is the most efficient way to loop through immediate children of a node.
    for (Node childNode = parentNode.getFirstChild(); childNode != null; childNode = childNode.getNextSibling())
    {
        // Do some useful work.
        System.out.println(Node.nodeTypeToString(childNode.getNodeType()));

        // Recurse into the node if it is a composite node.
        if (childNode.isComposite())
            traverseAllNodes((CompositeNode)childNode);
    }
}

public int getNodeType()

Returns NodeType.FIELD_START. The value of the property is NodeType integer constant.

Example:

Shows how to retrieve the NodeType enumeration of nodes.

Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Document.doc");

// Let's pick a node that we can't be quite sure of what type it is.
// In this case lets pick the first node of the first paragraph in the body of the document
Node node = doc.getFirstSection().getBody().getFirstParagraph().getFirstChild();
System.out.println("NodeType of first child: " + Node.nodeTypeToString(node.getNodeType()));

// This time let's pick a node that we know the type of. Create a new paragraph and a table node.
Paragraph para = new Paragraph(doc);
Table table = new Table(doc);

// Access to NodeType for typed nodes will always return their specific NodeType.
// i.e A paragraph node will always return NodeType.Paragraph, a table node will always return NodeType.Table.
System.out.println("NodeType of Paragraph: " + Node.nodeTypeToString(para.getNodeType()));
System.out.println("NodeType of Table: " + Node.nodeTypeToString(table.getNodeType()));

public CompositeNode getParentNode()

Gets the immediate parent of this node.

If a node has just been created and not yet added to the tree, or if it has been removed from the tree, the parent is null.

Example:

Shows how to access the parent node.

// Create a new empty document. It has one section.
Document doc = new Document();

// The section is the first child node of the document.
Node section = doc.getFirstChild();

// The section's parent node is the document.
System.out.println("Section parent is the document: " + (doc == section.getParentNode()));

Example:

Shows that when you create any node, it requires a document that will own the node.

// Open a file from disk.
Document doc = new Document();

// Creating a new node of any type requires a document passed into the constructor.
Paragraph para = new Paragraph(doc);

// The new paragraph node does not yet have a parent.
System.out.println("Paragraph has no parent node: " + (para.getParentNode() == null));

// But the paragraph node knows its document.
System.out.println("Both nodes' documents are the same: " + (para.getDocument() == doc));

// The fact that a node always belongs to a document allows us to access and modify
// properties that reference the document-wide data such as styles or lists.
para.getParagraphFormat().setStyleName("Heading 1");

// Now add the paragraph to the main text of the first section.
doc.getFirstSection().getBody().appendChild(para);

// The paragraph node is now a child of the Body node.
System.out.println("Paragraph has a parent node: " + (para.getParentNode() != null));

public Paragraph getParentParagraph()

Retrieves the parent Paragraph of this node.

public Node getPreviousSibling()

Gets the node immediately preceding this node.

If there is no preceding node, a null is returned.

Example:

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

// Document is a CompositeNode and LastChild returns the last child node in the Document node.
// Since the Document can contain only Section nodes, the last child is the last section.
Node lastSection = doc.getLastChild();

// Each node knows its next and previous sibling nodes.
// Previous sibling of a section is a section before the specified section.
// If the node is the first child, PreviousSibling will return null.
Node sectionBeforeLast = lastSection.getPreviousSibling();

if (sectionBeforeLast != null)
    doc.removeChild(sectionBeforeLast);

public Range getRange()

Returns a Range object that represents the portion of a document that is contained in this node.

Example:

Shows how to delete a section from a Word document.

// Open Word document.
Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Range.DeleteSection.doc");

// The document contains two sections. Each section has a paragraph of text.
System.out.println(doc.getText());

// Delete the first section from the document.
doc.getSections().get(0).getRange().delete();

// Check the first section was deleted by looking at the text of the whole document again.
System.out.println(doc.getText());

public boolean accept(DocumentVisitor visitor)
              throws java.lang.Exception

Accepts a visitor.

Calls DocumentVisitor.visitFieldStart(com.aspose.words.FieldStart).

For more info see the Visitor design pattern.

Parameters:

visitor - The visitor that will visit the node.

Returns:

False if the visitor requested the enumeration to stop.

public Node deepClone(boolean isCloneChildren)
              throws java.lang.Exception

Creates a duplicate of the node.

This method serves as a copy constructor for nodes. The cloned node has no parent, but belongs to the same document as the original node.

This method always performs a deep copy of the node. The isCloneChildren parameter specifies whether to perform copy all child nodes as well.

Parameters:

isCloneChildren - True to recursively clone the subtree under the specified node; false to clone only the node itself.

Returns:

The cloned node.

Example:

Shows how to clone nodes with and without their child nodes.

// Create a new empty document.
Document doc = new Document();

// Add some text to the first paragraph
Paragraph para = doc.getFirstSection().getBody().getFirstParagraph();
para.appendChild(new Run(doc, "Some text"));

// Clone the paragraph and the child nodes.
Node cloneWithChildren = para.deepClone(true);
// Only clone the paragraph and no child nodes.
Node cloneWithoutChildren = para.deepClone(false);

public Node getAncestor(int ancestorType)

Gets the first ancestor of the specified NodeType.

Parameters:

ancestorType - A NodeType value. The node type of the ancestor to retrieve.

Returns:

The ancestor of the specified type or null if no ancestor of this type was found.

Example:

Shows how to find out if a table contains another table or if the table itself is nested inside another table.

public void calculateDepthOfNestedTables() throws Exception
{
    Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Table.NestedTables.doc");
    int tableIndex = 0;

    for (Table table : (Iterable<Table>) doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.TABLE, true))
    {
        // First lets find if any cells in the table have tables themselves as children.
        int count = getChildTableCount(table);
        System.out.println(MessageFormat.format("Table #{0} has {1} tables directly within its cells", tableIndex, count));

        // Now let's try the other way around, lets try find if the table is nested inside another table and at what depth.
        int tableDepth = getNestedDepthOfTable(table);

        if (tableDepth > 0)
            System.out.println(MessageFormat.format("Table #{0} is nested inside another table at depth of {1}", tableIndex, tableDepth));
        else
            System.out.println(MessageFormat.format("Table #{0} is a non nested table (is not a child of another table)", tableIndex));

        tableIndex++;
    }
}

/**
 * Calculates what level a table is nested inside other tables.
 *
 * @returns An integer containing the level the table is nested at.
 * 0 = Table is not nested inside any other table
 * 1 = Table is nested within one parent table
 * 2 = Table is nested within two parent tables etc..
 */
private static int getNestedDepthOfTable(Table table) throws Exception
{
    int depth = 0;

    int type = table.getNodeType();
    // The parent of the table will be a Cell, instead attempt to find a grandparent that is of type Table
    Node parent = table.getAncestor(type);

    while (parent != null)
    {
        // Every time we find a table a level up we increase the depth counter and then try to find an
        // ancestor of type table from the parent.
        depth++;
        parent = parent.getAncestor(type);
    }

    return depth;
}

/**
 * Determines if a table contains any immediate child table within its cells.
 * Does not recursively traverse through those tables to check for further tables.
 * @returns Returns true if at least one child cell contains a table.
 * Returns false if no cells in the table contains a table.
 */
private static int getChildTableCount(Table table) throws Exception
{
    int tableCount = 0;
    // Iterate through all child rows in the table
    for (Row row : table.getRows())
    {
        // Iterate through all child cells in the row
        for (Cell Cell : row.getCells())
        {
            // Retrieve the collection of child tables of this cell
            TableCollection childTables = Cell.getTables();

            // If this cell has a table as a child then return true
            if (childTables.getCount() > 0)
                tableCount++;
        }
    }

    // No cell contains a table
    return tableCount;
}

public Node getAncestor(java.lang.Class ancestorType)

Gets the first ancestor of the specified object type.

The ancestor type matches if it is equal to ancestorType or derived from ancestorType.

Parameters:

ancestorType - The object type of the ancestor to retrieve.

Returns:

The ancestor of the specified type or null if no ancestor of this type was found.

public Field getField()
              throws java.lang.Exception

Returns a field for the field char.

A new Field object is created each time the method is called.

Returns:

A field for the field char.

public java.lang.String getText()

Gets the special character that this node represents.

Returns:

The string that contains the character that this node represents.

public Node nextPreOrder(Node rootNode)

Gets next node according to the pre-order tree traversal algorithm.

Parameters:

rootNode - The top node (limit) of traversal.

Returns:

Next node in pre-order order. Null if reached the rootNode.

Example:

Shows how to delete all images from a document using pre-order tree traversal.

Node curNode = doc;
while (curNode != null)
{
    Node nextNode = curNode.nextPreOrder(doc);

    if (curNode.getNodeType() == NodeType.SHAPE)
    {
        Shape shape = (Shape)curNode;

        // Several shape types can have an image including image shapes and OLE objects.
        if (shape.hasImage())
            shape.remove();
    }

    curNode = nextNode;
}

public Node previousPreOrder(Node rootNode)

Gets the previous node according to the pre-order tree traversal algorithm.

Parameters:

rootNode - The top node (limit) of traversal.

Returns:

Previous node in pre-order order. Null if reached the rootNode.

public void remove()

Removes itself from the parent.

Example:

Shows how to remove all nodes of a specific type from a composite node. In this example we remove tables from a section body.

// Get the section that we want to work on.
Section section = doc.getSections().get(0);
Body body = section.getBody();

// Select the first child node in the body.
Node curNode = body.getFirstChild();

while (curNode != null)
{
    // Save the pointer to the next sibling node because if the current
    // node is removed from the parent in the next step, we will have
    // no way of finding the next node to continue the loop.
    Node nextNode = curNode.getNextSibling();

    // A section body can contain Paragraph and Table nodes.
    // If the node is a Table, remove it from the parent.
    if (curNode.getNodeType() == NodeType.TABLE)
        curNode.remove();

    // Continue going through child nodes until null (no more siblings) is reached.
    curNode = nextNode;
}

Example:

Shows how to delete all images from a document.

// Here we get all shapes from the document node, but you can do this for any smaller
// node too, for example delete shapes from a single section or a paragraph.
NodeCollection shapes = doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.SHAPE, true);

// We cannot delete shape nodes while we enumerate through the collection.
// One solution is to add nodes that we want to delete to a temporary array and delete afterwards.
ArrayList shapesToDelete = new ArrayList();
for (Shape shape : (Iterable<Shape>) shapes)
{
    // Several shape types can have an image including image shapes and OLE objects.
    if (shape.hasImage())
        shapesToDelete.add(shape);
}

// Now we can delete shapes.
for (Shape shape : (Iterable<Shape>) shapesToDelete)
    shape.remove();

public java.lang.String toString(SaveOptions saveOptions)
               throws java.lang.Exception

Exports the content of the node into a string using the specified save options.

Parameters:

saveOptions - Specifies the options that control how the node is saved.

Returns:

The content of the node in the specified format.

Example:

Exports the content of a node to string in HTML format using custom specified options.

Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Document.doc");

// Extract the last paragraph in the document to convert to HTML.
Node node = doc.getLastSection().getBody().getLastParagraph();

// Create an instance of HtmlSaveOptions and set a few options.
HtmlSaveOptions saveOptions = new HtmlSaveOptions();
saveOptions.setExportHeadersFootersMode(ExportHeadersFootersMode.PER_SECTION);
saveOptions.setExportRelativeFontSize(true);

// Convert the document to HTML and return as a string. Pass the instance of HtmlSaveOptions to
// to use the specified options during the conversion.
String nodeAsHtml = node.toString(saveOptions);

public java.lang.String toString(int saveFormat)
               throws java.lang.Exception

Exports the content of the node into a string in the specified format.

Returns:

The content of the node in the specified format.

Parameters:

saveFormat - A SaveFormat value.

Example:

Shows how to extract the label of each paragraph in a list as a value or a string.

Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Lists.PrintOutAllLists.doc");
doc.updateListLabels();
int listParaCount = 1;

for (Paragraph paragraph : (Iterable<Paragraph>) doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.PARAGRAPH, true))
{
    // Find if we have the paragraph list. In our document our list uses plain arabic numbers,
    // which start at three and ends at six.
    if (paragraph.getListFormat().isListItem())
    {
        System.out.println(MessageFormat.format("Paragraph #{0}", listParaCount));

        // This is the text we get when actually getting when we output this node to text format.
        // The list labels are not included in this text output. Trim any paragraph formatting characters.
        String paragraphText = paragraph.toString(SaveFormat.TEXT).trim();
        System.out.println("Exported Text: " + paragraphText);

        ListLabel label = paragraph.getListLabel();
        // This gets the position of the paragraph in current level of the list. If we have a list with multiple level then this
        // will tell us what position it is on that particular level.
        System.out.println("Numerical Id: " + label.getLabelValue());

        // Combine them together to include the list label with the text in the output.
        System.out.println("List label combined with text: " + label.getLabelString() + " " + paragraphText);

        listParaCount++;
    }

}

Example:

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

Document doc = new Document();

// Enter a dummy field into the document.
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.insertField("MERGEFIELD Field");

// GetText will retrieve all field codes and special characters
System.out.println("GetText() Result: " + doc.getText());

// ToString will export the node to the specified format. When converted to text it will not retrieve fields code
// or special characters, but will still contain some natural formatting characters such as paragraph markers etc.
// This is the same as "viewing" the document as if it was opened in a text editor.
System.out.println("ToString() Result: " + doc.toString(SaveFormat.TEXT));

Example:

Exports the content of a node to string in HTML format using default options.

Document doc = new Document(getMyDir() + "Document.doc");

// Extract the last paragraph in the document to convert to HTML.
Node node = doc.getLastSection().getBody().getLastParagraph();

// When ToString is called using the SaveFormat overload then conversion is executed using default save options.
// When saving to HTML using default options the following settings are set:
//   ExportImagesAsBase64 = true
//   CssStyleSheetType = CssStyleSheetType.Inline
//   ExportFontResources = false
String nodeAsHtml = node.toString(SaveFormat.HTML);

public java.lang.String toTxt()
            throws java.lang.Exception

Exports the content of the node into a string in plain text format.

This method removes field codes and Microsoft Word control characters, uses CrLf (or any other) combination of characters to mark ends of paragraphs in the resulting string. It produces a different result from getText() which just gets the text from the node without removing field codes or special characters.

Returns:

The content of the node in plain text format.

See Also:

TxtSaveOptions.ParagraphBreak, TxtSaveOptions.ExportHeadersFooters