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Tagged Text is only about Text formatting - there is nothing there about any aaspect of page or graphic objects.
By @Robert at ID-Tasker
I know--that's what I said. I was responding to this sentence:
"You should be able to apply Parents based on tagged content and it might be worth testing."
You're right - not directly - but as the OP was looking at scripts it might be and should be scriptable, so Section Headers might have a different Parent Page - I've requested this as a feature request before, to be able to assign a Parent Page with a Paragraph Style. So if you have Section Header and the attribute is Parent Page C then it applies that - I think I did before, maybe it was something similar.
So I had something similar had to go to my dropbox and dig it out - but found them. So you can target and paragraph style or tagged text to apply a Parent Page.
<edit - these need to be tweaked so that when Section Header doesn't appear on the page it shifts to the other Parent Page ---->>> Maybe I haven't thought this through ---<<<< needs more testing and obviouslly how it will be used ---->Maybe buid in fail safes so that if no header style and only body text it reverts to other parent page - but the proof is in the pudding>
This one changes Section Head paragraph style to B-Parent Page for example
(function () {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var styleName = "Section Head";
var parentName = "B-Parent";
var master = doc.masterSpreads.itemByName(parentName);
if (!master.isValid) {
alert("Master spread \"" + parentName + "\" not found.");
return;
}
var pagesChanged = [];
for (var i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) {
var tf = doc.textFrames[i];
var pg = tf.parentPage;
if (!pg || !(pg instanceof Page)) continue;
var paras = tf.paragraphs;
for (var j = 0; j < paras.length; j++) {
if (paras[j].appliedParagraphStyle.name === styleName) {
if (pg.appliedMaster !== master) {
pg.appliedMaster = master;
var pgName = String(pg.name);
if (pagesChanged.join().indexOf(pgName) === -1) {
pagesChanged.push(pgName);
}
}
break;
}
}
}
if (pagesChanged.length) {
alert("Applied \"" + parentName + "\" to pages: " + pagesChanged.join(", "));
} else {
alert("No paragraphs with style \"" + styleName + "\" were found on any page.");
}
})();
Similary if you have Tagged Text in InDesign
You can target it with a script to apply a parent page
(function () {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var tagName = "Section-Header";
var parentName = "B-Parent";
var master = doc.masterSpreads.itemByName(parentName);
if (!master.isValid) {
alert("Master spread \"" + parentName + "\" not found.");
return;
}
var elements = doc.xmlElements[0].evaluateXPathExpression("//" + tagName);
var pagesChanged = [];
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
var el = elements[i];
try {
var text = el.markupTag.name === tagName ? el : null;
if (text && text.insertionPoints.length > 0) {
var ip = text.insertionPoints[0];
var pg = ip.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;
if (pg && pg.appliedMaster !== master) {
pg.appliedMaster = master;
var pgName = String(pg.name);
if (pagesChanged.join().indexOf(pgName) === -1) {
pagesChanged.push(pgName);
}
}
}
} catch (e) {
$.writeln("Error processing element " + i + ": " + e.message);
}
}
if (pagesChanged.length) {
alert("Applied \"" + parentName + "\" to pages: " + pagesChanged.join(", "));
} else {
alert("No XML elements with tag \"" + tagName + "\" were found on any page.");
}
})();
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