[question] Loop through document items about docx

[XceedBoucherS]

Hi,

There is no properties for getting the Paragraphs, Pictures, Tables and List while maintaining their order in a document.

The properties Pictures, Tables and Lists from Document will return the these elements in 3 distincts lists.

Your closest way of getting those element in order of appearance would be to parse the Document.Paragraphs and look for Pictures/Tables...in each Paragraphs.

Thank you

[johnnyontheweb]

Hi,
thanks for your reply. Could you be a little be more precise on how to identify if there's Pictures or Tables in each Paragraph?
I think it's not possible to get the order even by parsing each Paragraph, because the Tables, the Pictures and the Lists will be given in distinct lists even in each Paragraph - am I wrong?

thanks in advance

[XceedBoucherS]

Hello,

You are right, each paragraph will contain a list of Pictures/Tables...but the read pictures/Tables should be positionned in the order they are read from the ooxml of the document:

var doc = DocX.Load( "test.docx" );
foreach( var paragraph in doc.Paragraphs )
{
var pictures = paragraph.Pictures;
foreach( var picture in pictures)
{
Console.WriteLine( picture.Description );
}
}

Give it a try and see if it works. :-)
Thank you

[johnnyontheweb]

Hello,
thanks for the snippet, but it is not working.
For instance: I have a docx with a table, an empty line and finally another table. I used your code (slightly modified to list tables instead of pictures), but I cannot get in any way the empty line and its order with respect to the tables.

I think a future improvement would be of great importance for a large variety of cases, e.g. copy the content of a document in another by appending it and neglecting the first document formats/headers/footers/etc.
Actually, a document containing table + empty line + table can be appended or inserted in another document only iterating on the same type (pragraph or table or picture).

[XceedBoucherS]

Hi @johnnyontheweb,

I haven't test this with Tables, but I would expect the document to look like:
-a paragraph containing a table
-a paragraph containing an empty line
-a paragraph containing a table
Therefor, parsing the paragraphs would result in the knowing which table appears before the other one.
Or you have another kind of document composition. Could you share your docx so I could test it ?

Currently, DocX offer the possibility to append a document to another document by selecting which header/footer you want in the resulting document (the ones from the source, the ones from the target or keep both of them). Please have a look at Document.InsertDocument() method, it will append or insert a document to another one.

The commercial Xceed Words for .NET will also let you insert a document at a specific position in another document. You can try it for free for 15 days here : https://xceed.com/en/our-products/product/words-for-net

Just tell me if you need something not supported, we could add it to our todo list.
Thank you

[johnnyontheweb]

Thanks, I've already seen Document.InsertDocument() before posting here, but I'm not interested in it, because it does not fit exactly my purposes (in my case, all the layouts that have to be used are the ones from the target document, there's not a choice about headers only).

In any case, I did a complete test of your revised code, and before I was calling Document.Tables. Instead, there's not paragraph.Tables like paragraph.Pictures!
In addition, by copying paragraphs, also the text content of the tables are copied as simple text, outside cells!

I can confirm there's not possible to do what I want

[XceedBoucherS]

Hi,
In Paragraph, there is a property called FollowingTables, which lists the tables following this paragraph, in order they appears.