Deleting content from one point to another in a odt document

[mlwesoly]

Hello, how is the best way to delete a part from the document. For example i want to delete all the text (paragraphs) from a chapter 5 until the end of the document (or maybe just one chapter). How would i do this? Sorry that I don't even have a beginning idea, but I'm really clueless in this one. Thank you already for your help!

i'm using already for something else: get_styled_elements("xyz") and the .delete() those. But this seems like a hassle for a whole chapter for example...

[jdum]

Hi, you can iterate over the elements of the document's body, but of course not delete some of them while iterating on their list.
So I would reconstruct the body from scratch, keeping wanted elements.

• build the elements to keep (those before the deletion, those after deletion)
• clear document.body, then add to body wanted elements

pseudo code:

keep_list = []
for elem in document.body.children:
    if element_to_keep:
        keep_list.append(elem)
document.body.clear()
document.body.extend(keep_list)

[mlwesoly]

Ohh thank you so much! That I can traverse with .childern all the underlying elements did the trick. That is amazing. And also I was searching for some method like remove, but didn't thought about clear & delete.