SmartTag class

SmartTag class

This element specifies the presence of a smart tag around one or more inline structures (runs, images, fields,etc.) within a paragraph. To learn more, visit the Structured Document Tags or Content Control documentation article.

Remarks

Smart tags is a kind of custom XML markup. Smart tags provide a facility for embedding customer-defined semantics into the document via the ability to provide a basic namespace/name for a run or set of runs within a document.

SmartTag can be a child of a Paragraph or another SmartTag node.

The complete list of child nodes that can occur inside a smart tag consists of BookmarkStart, BookmarkEnd, FieldStart, FieldSeparator, FieldEnd, FormField, Comment, Footnote, Run, SpecialChar, Shape, GroupShape, CommentRangeStart, CommentRangeEnd, SmartTag.

Inheritance: SmartTagCompositeNodeNode

Constructors

NameDescription
SmartTag(doc)Initializes a new instance of the SmartTag class.

Properties

NameDescription
countGets the number of immediate children of this node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
custom_node_idSpecifies custom node identifier.
(Inherited from Node)
documentGets the document to which this node belongs.
(Inherited from Node)
elementSpecifies the name of the smart tag within the document.
first_childGets the first child of the node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
has_child_nodesReturns True if this node has any child nodes.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
is_compositeReturns True if this node can contain other nodes.
(Inherited from Node)
last_childGets the last child of the node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
next_siblingGets the node immediately following this node.
(Inherited from Node)
node_typeReturns NodeType.SMART_TAG.
parent_nodeGets the immediate parent of this node.
(Inherited from Node)
previous_siblingGets the node immediately preceding this node.
(Inherited from Node)
propertiesA collection of the smart tag properties.
rangeReturns a Range object that represents the portion of a document that is contained in this node.
(Inherited from Node)
uriSpecifies the namespace URI of the smart tag.

Methods

NameDescription
accept(visitor)Accepts a visitor.
accept_end(visitor)Accepts a visitor for visiting the end of the SmartTag.
accept_start(visitor)Accepts a visitor for visiting the start of the SmartTag.
append_child(new_child)Adds the specified node to the end of the list of child nodes for this node.
(Inherited from CompositeNode)
clone(is_clone_children)Creates a duplicate of the node.
(Inherited from Node)
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 create smart tags.

def create():
    doc = aw.Document()
    # A smart tag appears in a document with Microsoft Word recognizes a part of its text as some form of data,
    # such as a name, date, or address, and converts it to a hyperlink that displays a purple dotted underline.
    smart_tag = aw.markup.SmartTag(doc)
    # Smart tags are composite nodes that contain their recognized text in its entirety.
    # Add contents to this smart tag manually.
    smart_tag.append_child(aw.Run(doc, 'May 29, 2019'))
    # Microsoft Word may recognize the above contents as being a date.
    # Smart tags use the "Element" property to reflect the type of data they contain.
    smart_tag.element = 'date'
    # Some smart tag types process their contents further into custom XML properties.
    smart_tag.properties.add(aw.markup.CustomXmlProperty('Day', '', '29'))
    smart_tag.properties.add(aw.markup.CustomXmlProperty('Month', '', '5'))
    smart_tag.properties.add(aw.markup.CustomXmlProperty('Year', '', '2019'))
    # Set the smart tag's URI to the default value.
    smart_tag.uri = 'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags'
    doc.first_section.body.first_paragraph.append_child(smart_tag)
    doc.first_section.body.first_paragraph.append_child(aw.Run(doc, ' is a date. '))
    # Create another smart tag for a stock ticker.
    smart_tag = aw.markup.SmartTag(doc)
    smart_tag.element = 'stockticker'
    smart_tag.uri = 'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags'
    smart_tag.append_child(aw.Run(doc, 'MSFT'))
    doc.first_section.body.first_paragraph.append_child(smart_tag)
    doc.first_section.body.first_paragraph.append_child(aw.Run(doc, ' is a stock ticker.'))
    # Older versions of Microsoft Word support smart tags.
    doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + 'SmartTag.create.doc')
    # Use the "remove_smart_tags" method to remove all smart tags from a document.
    self.assertEqual(2, doc.get_child_nodes(aw.NodeType.SMART_TAG, True).count)
    doc.remove_smart_tags()
    self.assertEqual(0, doc.get_child_nodes(aw.NodeType.SMART_TAG, True).count)

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