pdx:removeSection Removes a section and its contents

pdx:removeSection

Removes a section and its contents.

Description

Element definition

<pdx:utilities>
    <pdx:removeSection pdx:src="" pdx:target="" pdx:section="" pdx:keepSections="" />
</pdx:utilities>

This element allows you to remove a section and its contents in a Word document.

Attributes and sub-elements

src

Path to the Word document.

target

Path to the resulting document.

section

Section number to be removed: 1, 2...

keepSections

Preserve or not the original sections of the splitted document. If false uses the first section for all documents. Default as true.

Code samples

#Example 1

config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:config>
        <pdx:output pdx:name="output" pdx:type="docx" />
    </pdx:config>
</pdx:document>

content.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:utilities>
        <pdx:removeSection pdx:source="/var/www/xmldocx/examples/files/document_sections.docx" pdx:target="/var/www/xmldocx/examples/DocxPathUtilities/removeSection/output_removeSection.docx" pdx:section="2" />
    </pdx:utilities>
</pdx:document>

settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pdx:document xmlns:pdx="http://www.phpdocx.com/main">
    <pdx:settings>
    </pdx:settings>
</pdx:document>

import os as os
import sys as sys
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("wrappers/python/XmlDocx"))
import XmlDocx as XmlDocx
document = XmlDocx.XmlDocx("config.xml")
document.setDocumentProperties("settings.xml")
document.addContent("content.xml")
document.setXmlDocxPath("xmldocx path")
document.render()