How to retrieve a story by any associatedXMLElement

[Americo Pinto]

Hi everyone,

i try to retrieve an all xml story on the xml structure of an InDesign document by clickinf a textframe that  I know the associatedXMLElement ; It is possible

see example please

So, I click on the textframe on the InDesign document and get his associatedXMLElement (the markupTag name "texte"), then I want to get the parent node "doc" but I only the retrieve the "root" node ; after this I want iterate through the all node "doc".

help is welcome, thanks

Américo

[Sunil Yadav · Accepted solution]

Try this:

if(app.selection[0].constructor.name == "TextFrame"){
    var docNode = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement.parent.parent;
    for(var i = 0; i < docNode.xmlElements.length; i++){
        $.writeln(docNode.xmlElements[i].name)
        }
    }

Best

Sunil

[Americo Pinto]

Hello Sunil,

I'm sorry this returns "undefined" and I'm looking for the associatedXMLElement

Regards

[Americo Pinto]

OH ! Sunil, I'm sorry, you right ; I had just "docNode.xmlElements[i].markupTag.name" and Waouhou

Regards,

Americo