Cannot insert the OpenXmlElement "newChild" because it is part of a tree

Question

The Title states the error I am getting. I'm trying to hide all the text in a word doc using OpenXml. Currently when I try and append the Paragraph properties I receive the above error. I can't find much about this error online.

Code that returns error

        using (WordprocessingDocument wdDoc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(mDoc_copy, true))
        {
            // Manage namespaces to perform XPath queries.
            NameTable nt = new NameTable();
            XmlNamespaceManager nsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nt);
            nsManager.AddNamespace("w", wordmlNamespace);

            // Get the document part from the package.
            // Load the XML in the document part into an XmlDocument instance.
            XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument(nt);
            xdoc.Load(wdDoc.MainDocumentPart.GetStream());

            MainDocumentPart main = wdDoc.MainDocumentPart;

            IEnumerable<OpenXmlElement> elem = main.Document.Body.Descendants().ToList();
            Paragraph p;
            ParagraphProperties pp = new ParagraphProperties();
            ParagraphMarkRunProperties prmp = new ParagraphMarkRunProperties();
            Vanish v = new Vanish();
            apprmp.AppendChild<Vanish>(v);
            pp.AppendChild<ParagraphMarkRunProperties>(apprmp);


            foreach (Paragraph para in main.Document.Body.Descendants<Paragraph>().ToList())
            {


                    para.ParagraphProperties = pp;

            }
       }

Christiansand

You also need to add Vanish to Run properties in order to make the effect work. – Papaw

Okay so do I have to Vanish each Run first, then vanish each paragraph? or do I append the run properties to the the Paragraph object somehow? – Christiansand

Answer 1

Normally this error can be fixed by Cloning whatever node is causing the exception and then inserting that cloned value. Something like this:

LeftBorder leftBorder = new LeftBorder() { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin };
TopBorder topBorder = new TopBorder() { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin };
RightBorder rightBorder = new RightBorder() { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin };
BottomBorder bottomBorder = new BottomBorder() { Style = BorderStyleValues.Thin };

Color color = new Color() { Auto = true, Rgb = rgbHexValue == string.Empty ? new HexBinaryValue("00000000") : new HexBinaryValue(rgbHexValue) };

leftBorder.Color = color;
topBorder.Color = (Color)color.CloneNode(true);
rightBorder.Color = (Color)color.CloneNode(true);
bottomBorder.Color = (Color)color.CloneNode(true);

This will create one Color instance and then use the same instance for all the borders by cloning the original instance then inserting it.

Velodrome

That was exactly the problem I was facing, and this fixed it perfectly. Thanks! – Haemophilic

CloneNode! @amurra: You are a lifesaver! – Heartsick