GroupDocs.Assembly for Java 18.10 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Assembly for Java 18.10.

Major Features

Supported removal of paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values for templates of Word Processing, Presentation, and Email file formats.

Full List of Features Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
ASSEMBLYNET-89	Support removal of paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values for Word Processing documents	Feature
ASSEMBLYNET-91	Support removal of paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values for Presentation documents	Feature
ASSEMBLYNET-92	Support removal of paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values for Email documents	Feature

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Assembly for Java 18.10. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behaviour behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Assembly which may affect existing code. Any behaviour introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behaviour is especially important and is documented here.

Support removal of paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values

The following new member was added to DocumentAssemblyOptions:

Java

**
  * Specifies that the assembler should remove paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values.
  * At the moment, this option is supported only for templates of Word Processing, Presentation, and Email file formats.
  */
public static final int REMOVE_EMPTY_PARAGRAPHS

When the new option is applied to **DocumentAssembler **options through DocumentAssembler.setOptions(), the engine additionally removes paragraphs becoming empty after template syntax tags are removed or replaced with empty values as shown in the following examples.

Example 1

Template document.

Prefix
<<[""]>>
Suffix

Result document without the new option applied.

Prefix
 
Suffix

Result document with the new option applied.

Prefix
Suffix

Example 2

Template document.

Prefix
<<if [false]>>
Text to be removed
<</if>>
Suffix

Result document without the new option applied.

Prefix
 
Suffix

Result document with the new option applied.

Prefix
Suffix

Example 3

In this example, persons isassumed to be a data table having a field Name.

Template document.

Prefix
<<foreach [in persons]>>
<<[Name]>>
<</foreach>>
Suffix

Result document without the new option applied.

Prefix
 
John Doe
 
Jane Doe
 
John Smith
 
Suffix

Result document with the new option applied.

Prefix
John Doe
Jane Doe
John Smith
Suffix