NodeNodeType Property

public abstract NodeType NodeType { get; }

Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property NodeType As NodeType
	Get

public:
virtual property NodeType NodeType {
	NodeType get () abstract;
}

abstract NodeType : NodeType with get

// In this example we enumerate all paragraphs of a section body
// Get the section that we want to work on
Section section = doc.Sections[0];
Body body = section.Body;

// Loop starting from the first child until we reach null
for (Node node = body.FirstChild; node != null; node = node.NextSibling)
{
    // Output the types of the nodes that we come across
    Console.WriteLine(Node.NodeTypeToString(node.NodeType));
}

// 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 + "Document.docx");

// Let's pick a node that we can't be quite sure of what type it is
// In this case lets pick the first node of the first paragraph in the body of the document
Node node = doc.FirstSection.Body.FirstParagraph.FirstChild;
Console.WriteLine("NodeType of first child: " + Node.NodeTypeToString(node.NodeType));

// This time let's pick a node that we know the type of
// Create a new paragraph and a table node
Paragraph para = new Paragraph(doc);
Table table = new Table(doc);

// Access to NodeType for typed nodes will always return their specific NodeType
// i.e A paragraph node will always return NodeType.Paragraph, a table node will always return NodeType.Table
Console.WriteLine("NodeType of Paragraph: " + Node.NodeTypeToString(para.NodeType));
Console.WriteLine("NodeType of Table: " + Node.NodeTypeToString(table.NodeType));