How to map xml attribute to style?

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July 1, 2022
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Hi,

Let say i have this simple xml file:

<root>
<p align="right">
</root>

How can i map the align="right" with 'align right' in indesign? Is there any example script that i can refer to?

How to

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Kasyan Servetsky

Legend

I assume that you want to achieve this by script. Here's an example and a test file attached:

main();

function main() {
	var xmlEl, xmlContent, xmlAttr, alignment,
	doc = app.activeDocument,
	root = doc.xmlElements[0],
	xPath = "//p[@align]",
	xmlElements = root.evaluateXPathExpression(xPath);
	
	for (var i = 0; i < xmlElements.length; i++) {
			xmlEl = xmlElements[i];
			xmlContent = xmlEl.xmlContent;
			xmlAttr = xmlEl.xmlAttributes.itemByName("align");
			alignment = xmlAttr.value.toUpperCase();
			xmlContent.justification = eval("Justification." + alignment + "_ALIGN");
	}
}

Test.zip

J

jakeo3219394

Participant

Hi @Mana5D15 ,

Example as follows

<root>
<p aid:pstyle="alignRight">Example text that will be aligned right</p>
<root>

You need to change you "align" attribute name to "aid:pstyle" as that is an attribute name that is fixed for InDesign to pick up. Once you import that xml into your Indesign document, it should be styled with the "alignRight" paragraph style. I use this xml attribute assignment method for Indesign tables, especially cascading ones.

Some documentation on this is here Adobe InDesign CS3 and XML: A Technical Reference

Any questions (no matter how silly! I know documentation isn't great for Adobe) fire away, happy to help.

Jake