How to change Tag Element Name in xml structure?

[payalm68947498]

Hi Everyone,

               I want to change tag name after creating tag through scripting.

Thank you.....

[Manan Joshi]

You could use the following

var newItem = app.activeDocument.xmlTags.itemByName("boxed-text")
if(newItem.isValid)
    app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement.markupTag = newItem

Add in the required error checks like the selection is valid or not and so forth.

-Manan

[payalm68947498]

Thank you....

It works when app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement.markupTag = newItem change to

app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag = newItem,

only difference is associatedXMLElements[0].

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Ahh, my bad i did not look into it deeply. Well your case would fail if the selection is a textframe as mine would if the selection is a text. So a more appropriate code that handles both the cases would be

var newItem = app.activeDocument.xmlTags.itemByName("Name")  
if(newItem.isValid)
{
     var a;
     try{
          a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0]
     }catch(e){}
     try{
          if(!a)
               a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement
     }catch(e){}
     if(a)
          a.markupTag = newItem 
}

The idea is simply to use try catch block to see if the property exists or not, this should also cater to selection not being tagged as well.

-Manan

[Manan Joshi]

After thought a more clean solution would be to use hasOwnProperty method

var newItem = app.activeDocument.xmlTags.itemByName("Name") 
if(newItem.isValid)
{
     var a;
     if(app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty('associatedXMLElements'))
          a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0]
     else if(app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty('associatedXMLElement'))
          a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement
     if(a)
          a.markupTag = newItem
}

-Manan

[payalm68947498]

my app.selection is text because i am selecting that text before replacing tag name, thats why app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0] it works.

Thank you for helping......