From 6670c48c305fca2aa30c4bdd01763c696f8f698e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jacobo=20Aragunde=20P=C3=A9rez?= <jaragunde@igalia.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 13:28:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add getter for body elements in XWPFSDTContent. (#991)

* Add getter for body elements in XWPFSDTContent.

This getter allows to navigate the POI objects stored inside a
XWPFSDTContent object without resorting to navigating XML.

* Address comments in review.
---
 .../poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFSDTContent.java    | 10 ++++++++
 .../poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFSDT.java       | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/poi-ooxml/src/main/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFSDTContent.java b/poi-ooxml/src/main/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFSDTContent.java
index fc0bd3981f..ace3e0271e 100644
--- a/poi-ooxml/src/main/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFSDTContent.java
+++ b/poi-ooxml/src/main/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFSDTContent.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.apache.poi.util.Beta;
@@ -107,6 +108,15 @@ public class XWPFSDTContent implements ISDTContent {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Get the body elements inside this SDT content element.
+     * @return Unmodifiable list containing body elements.
+     * @since 6.0.0
+     */
+    public List<ISDTContents> getBodyElements() {
+        return Collections.unmodifiableList(bodyElements);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public String getText() {
         StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
diff --git a/poi-ooxml/src/test/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFSDT.java b/poi-ooxml/src/test/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFSDT.java
index 235c17d3ab..9b40eb4837 100644
--- a/poi-ooxml/src/test/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFSDT.java
+++ b/poi-ooxml/src/test/java/org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/TestXWPFSDT.java
@@ -95,6 +95,29 @@ public final class TestXWPFSDT {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void testGetSDTContentBodyElements() throws Exception {
+        try (XWPFDocument doc = XWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleDocument("Bug54849.docx")) {
+            IBodyElement sdtBodyElement = doc.getBodyElements().get(2);
+            assertTrue(sdtBodyElement instanceof XWPFSDT, "sdtBodyElement instance of XWPFSDT");
+            XWPFSDTContent content = (XWPFSDTContent) ((XWPFSDT) sdtBodyElement).getContent();
+            assertEquals(3, content.getBodyElements().size(), "elements inside SDT");
+
+            ISDTContents c1 = content.getBodyElements().get(0);
+            assertTrue(c1 instanceof XWPFParagraph, "c1 instance of XWPFParagraph");
+            assertEquals("Rich_text_pre_table", ((XWPFParagraph) c1).getText());
+
+            ISDTContents c2 = content.getBodyElements().get(1);
+            assertTrue(c2 instanceof XWPFTable, "c2 instance of XWPFTable");
+            assertEquals(3, ((XWPFTable) c2).getNumberOfRows(), "rows in table inside SDT");
+            assertEquals("Rich_text_cell1", ((XWPFTable) c2).getRow(0).getCell(0).getText());
+
+            ISDTContents c3 = content.getBodyElements().get(2);
+            assertTrue(c3 instanceof XWPFParagraph, "c3 instance of XWPFParagraph");
+            assertEquals("Rich_text_post_table", ((XWPFParagraph) c3).getText());
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * POI-54771 and TIKA-1317
      */