Bookmark selection removal

[Chethan]

Hi,

Currently I'm using the Docx4j API to modify the word template and has one query regarding bookmark contents.
I've huge word template (414 pages) with many bookmarks in it. I can remove all the bookmarks using BookmarksDeleter sample.
Now I have to remove corresponding selection of bookmark. Modification/String manipulation of document.xml was not feasible as bookmarks span across paragraphs.

If using ACTIVE X, it is achieved via below code:-
myDocument.Bookmarks(deleteBookMarkName).Select();
myDocument.Application.Selection.Delete();

I was looking for similar kind of selection and deletion of bookmark content was possible in docx4j.

Thanks,
Chethan

[jason]

Hi Chethan

There is no high level function in docx4j to remove the contents of a bookmark.

However, everything you need is there at a low level to implement this functionality yourself.

The slight challenge you face is that a bookmark could start, for example, in a paragraph in a table cell, and finish in some paragraph further down the document outside the table.

It ought to be enough to find the bookmark start, then delete content (using a traversal approach) until you reach the bookmark end.

hope this helps .. Jason