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CT_Styles

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<w:styles> element, the root element of a styles part, i.e. styles.xml.

Attributes

latentStyles

attributelatentStyles
= ZeroOrOne('w:latentStyles', successors=(_tag_seq[2:]))

style

attributestyle
= ZeroOrMore('w:style', successors=())

xml

attributexmlstr

XML string for this element, suitable for testing purposes.

Pretty printed for readability and without an XML declaration at the top.

Functions

add_style_of_type

funcadd_style_of_type(name, style_type, builtin)

Return a newly added w:style element having name and style_type.

w:style/@customStyle is set based on the value of builtin.

paramname
paramstyle_type
parambuiltin

default_for

funcdefault_for(style_type)

Return w:style[@w:type="*{style_type}*][-1] or None if not found.

paramstyle_type

first_child_found_in

funcfirst_child_found_in(*tagnames: str) -> _Element | None

First child with tag in tagnames, or None if not found.

paramtagnamesstr
= ()

Returns

lxml.etree._Element | None

get_by_id

funcget_by_id(styleId: str) -> CT_Style | None

w:style child where @styleId = styleId.

None if not found.

paramstyleIdstr

Returns

docx.oxml.styles.CT_Style | None

get_by_name

funcget_by_name(name: str) -> CT_Style | None

w:style child with w:name grandchild having value name.

None if not found.

paramnamestr

Returns

docx.oxml.styles.CT_Style | None

insert_element_before

funcinsert_element_before(elm: ElementBase, *tagnames: str)
paramelmElementBase
paramtagnamesstr
= ()

remove_all

funcremove_all(*tagnames: str) -> None

Remove child elements with tagname (e.g. "a:p") in tagnames.

paramtagnamesstr
= ()

Returns

None

xpath

funcxpath(xpath_str: str) -> Any

Override of lxml _Element.xpath() method.

Provides standard Open XML namespace mapping (nsmap) in centralized location.

paramxpath_strstr

Returns

typing.Any

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