NodeRemove Method

public void Remove()

Public Sub Remove

public:
void Remove()

member Remove : unit -> unit 

// In this example we remove tables from a section body
// Get the section that we want to work on
Section section = doc.Sections[0];
Body body = section.Body;

// Select the first child node in the body
Node curNode = body.FirstChild;

while (curNode != null)
{
    // Save the pointer to the next sibling node because if the current 
    // node is removed from the parent in the next step, we will have 
    // no way of finding the next node to continue the loop
    Node nextNode = curNode.NextSibling;

    // A section body can contain Paragraph and Table nodes
    // If the node is a Table, remove it from the parent
    if (curNode.NodeType.Equals(NodeType.Table))
        curNode.Remove();

    // Continue going through child nodes until null (no more siblings) is reached
    curNode = nextNode;
}

Document doc = new Document(MyDir + "Images.docx");
Assert.AreEqual(10, doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Shape, true).Count);

// Here we get all shapes from the document node, but you can do this for any smaller
// node too, for example delete shapes from a single section or a paragraph
NodeCollection shapes = doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Shape, true);

// We cannot delete shape nodes while we enumerate through the collection
// One solution is to add nodes that we want to delete to a temporary array and delete afterwards
ArrayList shapesToDelete = new ArrayList();
foreach (Shape shape in shapes.OfType<Shape>())
{
    // Several shape types can have an image including image shapes and OLE objects
    if (shape.HasImage)
        shapesToDelete.Add(shape);
}

// Now we can delete shapes
foreach (Shape shape in shapesToDelete)
    shape.Remove();

Assert.AreEqual(1, doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.Shape, true).Count);
doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "Image.DeleteAllImages.docx");