FootnoteAccept Method

Accepts a visitor.

Namespace:  Aspose.Words
Assembly:  Aspose.Words (in Aspose.Words.dll) Version: 20.3
Syntax
public override bool Accept(
	DocumentVisitor visitor
)

Parameters

visitor
Type: Aspose.WordsDocumentVisitor
The visitor that will visit the nodes.

Return Value

Type: Boolean
True if all nodes were visited; false if DocumentVisitor stopped the operation before visiting all nodes.
Remarks

Enumerates over this node and all of its children. Each node calls a corresponding method on DocumentVisitor.

For more info see the Visitor design pattern.

Remarks
Calls DocumentVisitor.VisitFootnoteStart, then calls Accept for all child nodes of the footnote and calls DocumentVisitor.VisitFootnoteEnd at the end.
Examples
Traverse a document with a visitor that prints all footnotes that it encounters.
public void FootnoteToText()
{
    // Open the document that has footnotes we want to print the info of
    Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "DocumentVisitor-compatible features.docx");

    // Create an object that inherits from the DocumentVisitor class
    FootnoteInfoPrinter visitor = new FootnoteInfoPrinter();

    // Accepting a visitor lets it start traversing the nodes in the document, 
    // starting with the node that accepted it to then recursively visit every child
    doc.Accept(visitor);

    // Once the visiting is complete, we can retrieve the result of the operation,
    // that in this example, has accumulated in the visitor
    Console.WriteLine(visitor.GetText());
}

/// <summary>
/// This Visitor implementation prints information about footnotes encountered in the document.
/// </summary>
public class FootnoteInfoPrinter : DocumentVisitor
{
    public FootnoteInfoPrinter()
    {
        mBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        mVisitorIsInsideFootnote = false;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the plain text of the document that was accumulated by the visitor.
    /// </summary>
    public string GetText()
    {
        return mBuilder.ToString();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called when a Footnote node is encountered in the document.
    /// </summary>
    public override VisitorAction VisitFootnoteStart(Footnote footnote)
    {
        IndentAndAppendLine("[Footnote start] Type: " + footnote.FootnoteType);
        mDocTraversalDepth++;
        mVisitorIsInsideFootnote = true;

        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called when the visiting of a Footnote node is ended.
    /// </summary>
    public override VisitorAction VisitFootnoteEnd(Footnote footnote)
    {
        mDocTraversalDepth--;
        IndentAndAppendLine("[Footnote end]");
        mVisitorIsInsideFootnote = false;

        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Called when a Run node is encountered in the document.
    /// </summary>
    public override VisitorAction VisitRun(Run run)
    {
        if (mVisitorIsInsideFootnote) IndentAndAppendLine("[Run] \"" + run.GetText() + "\"");

        return VisitorAction.Continue;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Append a line to the StringBuilder and indent it depending on how deep the visitor is into the document tree.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="text"></param>
    private void IndentAndAppendLine(string text)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < mDocTraversalDepth; i++) mBuilder.Append("|  ");

        mBuilder.AppendLine(text);
    }

    private bool mVisitorIsInsideFootnote;
    private int mDocTraversalDepth;
    private readonly StringBuilder mBuilder;
}
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