StructuredDocumentTag class

Represents a structured document tag (SDT or content control) in a document. To learn more, visit the Structured Document Tags or Content Control documentation article.

Remarks

Structured document tags (SDTs) allow to embed customer-defined semantics as well as its behavior and appearance into a document.

In this version Aspose.Words provides a number of public methods and properties to manipulate the behavior and content of StructuredDocumentTag. Mapping of SDT nodes to custom XML packages within a document can be performed with using the StructuredDocumentTag.xml_mapping property.

StructuredDocumentTag can occur in a document in the following places:

Block-level - Among paragraphs and tables, as a child of a Body, HeaderFooter, Comment, Footnote or a Shape node.
Row-level - Among rows in a table, as a child of a Table node.
Cell-level - Among cells in a table row, as a child of a Row node.
Inline-level - Among inline content inside, as a child of a Paragraph.
Nested inside another StructuredDocumentTag.

Inheritance: StructuredDocumentTag → CompositeNode → Node

Interfaces: IStructuredDocumentTag

Constructors

Name	Description
StructuredDocumentTag(doc, type, level)	Initializes a new instance of the Structured document tag class.

Properties

Name	Description
appearance	Gets/sets the appearance of a structured document tag.
building_block_category	Specifies category of building block for this SDT node. Can not be `None`.
building_block_gallery	Specifies type of building block for this SDT. Can not be `None`.
calendar_type	Specifies the type of calendar for this SDT. Default is SdtCalendarType.DEFAULT
checked	Gets/Sets current state of the Checkbox SDT. Default value for this property is `False`.
color	Gets or sets the color of the structured document tag.
contents_font	Font formatting that will be applied to text entered into SDT.
count	Gets the number of immediate children of this node. (Inherited from CompositeNode)
custom_node_id	Specifies custom node identifier. (Inherited from Node)
date_display_format	String that represents the format in which dates are displayed.
date_display_locale	Allows to set/get the language format for the date displayed in this SDT.
date_storage_format	Gets/sets format in which the date for a date SDT is stored when the SDT is bound to an XML node in the document’s data store. Default value is SdtDateStorageFormat.DATE_TIME
document	Gets the document to which this node belongs. (Inherited from Node)
end_character_font	Font formatting that will be applied to the last character of text entered into SDT.
first_child	Gets the first child of the node. (Inherited from CompositeNode)
full_date	Specifies the full date and time last entered into this SDT.
has_child_nodes	Returns `True` if this node has any child nodes. (Inherited from CompositeNode)
id	Specifies a unique read-only persistent numerical Id for this SDT.
is_composite	Returns `True` if this node can contain other nodes. (Inherited from Node)
is_showing_placeholder_text	Specifies whether the content of this SDT shall be interpreted to contain placeholder text (as opposed to regular text contents within the SDT).
is_temporary	Specifies whether this SDT shall be removed from the WordProcessingML document when its contents are modified.
last_child	Gets the last child of the node. (Inherited from CompositeNode)
level	Gets the level at which this SDT occurs in the document tree.
list_items	Gets SdtListItemCollection associated with this SDT.
lock_content_control	When set to `True`, this property will prohibit a user from deleting this SDT.
lock_contents	When set to `True`, this property will prohibit a user from editing the contents of this SDT.
multiline	Specifies whether this SDT allows multiple lines of text.
next_sibling	Gets the node immediately following this node. (Inherited from Node)
node_type	Returns NodeType.STRUCTURED_DOCUMENT_TAG.
parent_node	Gets the immediate parent of this node. (Inherited from Node)
placeholder	Gets the BuildingBlock containing placeholder text which should be displayed when this SDT run contents are empty, the associated mapped XML element is empty as specified via the StructuredDocumentTag.xml_mapping element or the StructuredDocumentTag.is_showing_placeholder_text element is `True`.
placeholder_name	Gets or sets Name of the BuildingBlock containing placeholder text.
previous_sibling	Gets the node immediately preceding this node. (Inherited from Node)
range	Returns a Range object that represents the portion of a document that is contained in this node. (Inherited from Node)
sdt_type	Gets type of this Structured document tag.
style	Gets or sets the Style of the structured document tag.
style_name	Gets or sets the name of the style applied to the structured document tag.
tag	Specifies a tag associated with the current SDT node. Can not be `None`.
title	Specifies the friendly name associated with this SDT. Can not be `None`.
word_open_xml	Gets a string that represents the XML contained within the node in the SaveFormat.FLAT_OPC format.
word_open_xml_minimal	Gets a string that represents the XML contained within the node in the SaveFormat.FLAT_OPC format.
xml_mapping	Gets an object that represents the mapping of this structured document tag to XML data in a custom XML part of the current document.

Methods

Name	Description
accept(visitor)	Accepts a visitor.
accept_end(visitor)	Accepts a visitor for visiting the end of the StructuredDocumentTag.
accept_start(visitor)	Accepts a visitor for visiting the start of the StructuredDocumentTag.
append_child(new_child)	Adds the specified node to the end of the list of child nodes for this node. (Inherited from CompositeNode)
clear()	Clears contents of this structured document tag and displays a placeholder if it is defined.
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_self_only()	Removes just this SDT node itself, but keeps the content of it inside the document tree.
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)
set_checked_symbol(character_code, font_name)	Sets the symbol used to represent the checked state of a check box content control.
set_unchecked_symbol(character_code, font_name)	Sets the symbol used to represent the unchecked state of a check box content control.
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 work with styles for content control elements.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.DocumentBuilder(doc=doc)
# Below are two ways to apply a style from the document to a structured document tag.
# 1 -  Apply a style object from the document's style collection:
quote_style = doc.styles.get_by_style_identifier(aw.StyleIdentifier.QUOTE)
sdt_plain_text = aw.markup.StructuredDocumentTag(doc, aw.markup.SdtType.PLAIN_TEXT, aw.markup.MarkupLevel.INLINE)
sdt_plain_text.style = quote_style
# 2 -  Reference a style in the document by name:
sdt_rich_text = aw.markup.StructuredDocumentTag(doc, aw.markup.SdtType.RICH_TEXT, aw.markup.MarkupLevel.INLINE)
sdt_rich_text.style_name = 'Quote'
builder.insert_node(sdt_plain_text)
builder.insert_node(sdt_rich_text)
self.assertEqual(aw.NodeType.STRUCTURED_DOCUMENT_TAG, sdt_plain_text.node_type)
tags = doc.get_child_nodes(aw.NodeType.STRUCTURED_DOCUMENT_TAG, True)
for node in tags:
    sdt = node.as_structured_document_tag()
    print(sdt.word_open_xml_minimal)
    self.assertEqual(aw.StyleIdentifier.QUOTE, sdt.style.style_identifier)
    self.assertEqual('Quote', sdt.style_name)

StructuredDocumentTag class