How to find out the page number of an xml element

[Americo Pinto]

Hi everybody, sorry for my very bad english (french guy! logical). I hope you see what I'm looking for.

I'm scripting (javascript) an exporting script of every articles from a multi-pages indesign script.

In fact I could have one or more article in one file, every one of them is on an separate xml element. for each I have to export an xml file named with, first, the page number where appears the xml element, second, the number of exported article.

I'm success the second purpose, but not the first.

Someone have an idea ?

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Hi,

I am not clear with your question, but if you want to find the page number of an xml element. The below link will help you:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5308008#5308008

Vandy

[Americo Pinto]

Hi vandy88, thanks and sorry for the late answer.

your answer is a great help for me, but it doesn't work. I get the following error message "undefined is not an object" about this line "alert(figCitationPage.name);"

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Which InDesign version you are using, if it is below cs5 the code wont work, then u need to work out in an alternate way

Vandy

[Americo Pinto]

I'm using InDesign CS5.5

thx

Kazegonzo

[Sajeev Sridharan]

Try this,

var myDoc=app.activeDocument;

var root = myDoc.xmlElements[0];

var docTag = root.evaluateXPathExpression('//doc');

for(i=0; i<docTag.length; i++)

{

    var docPos = docTag.insertionPoints.lastItem();

    var docFrame = docPos.parentTextFrames[0];

    var docPage;

    try

    {

         docPage = docFrame.parentPage;

     }

catch(e)

    {

        docPage = docFrame.parent.name;

     }

    alert(docPage.name);

}

Vandy

[Americo Pinto]

i try your new solution. i get the following error message.

I don't understand why ?

[csm_phil · Accepted solution]

Hi kazegonzo,

Please try the below js code, I have access the doc/article/titre tag because the doc not placed into the pages,  you placed the titre tags so i access the titre tag and get the page number.

var myDoc=app.activeDocument;
var root = myDoc.xmlElements[0];
var docTag = root.evaluateXPathExpression('//doc//article//titre');
for(i=0; i<docTag.length; i++){
    var docPos = docTag.xmlContent.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames[0];
       alert("Page: "+docPos.parentPage.name);
       }

thx,

csm_phil

Message was edited by: csm_phil

[Americo Pinto]

hi csm_phil,

I understood my mistake. Thanks you and Vandy too. you are very helpful and patient to me.

I have just to put the return in a variable and it's done.

thx

kazegonzo

[csm_phil]

Hi kazegonzo,

Better you give some snapshots, your InDesign document xml structure and which tags you need to access and get the page number format.

thx,

csm_phil.

[Americo Pinto]

Hi csm_phil, pleased to see you.

what I trying to get is the page number for each tag "doc".

thanks for your help.

Kazegonzo