Removing Parts of a Document

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We would like to open a Word Document and remove everything between a start and finish tag which we define, including tables, images etc… I’ve attached a sample document where we would like to remove all of the text between <hs=sectionOne> and </hs=sectionOne>. How can I accomplish this using Aspose Words? Thanks in advance.

2

Here is the code that I’m using to replace everything, but the table is not being removed.

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\<hs=sectionOne\\>.*\\<\\/hs=sectionOne\\>", Pattern.DOTALL);
com.aspose.words.Document document = new com.aspose.words.Document("c:\\in.docx");
int results = document.getRange().replace(pattern, "", new FindReplaceOptions());
if (results > 0)
{
    System.out.println("Removed sectionOne from document");
}
document.save("c:\\testOut.docx);
3

This question can be marked as resolved. I was able to insert continuous section breaks into the document and programatically remove the sections that I needed to.

4

Hi Domenick,

It is great you were able to find what you were looking for. Another way is to enclose part of the document that you want to remove inside a Bookmark (BookmarkStart and BookmarkEnd nodes) and then just assign empty string to Text property of Bookmark as follows:

Bookmark bm = doc.getRange().getBookmarks().get("bm");
bm.setText("");

Please let us know any time you have any further queries.

Best regards,