Tags within a text selection...

[childsmile]

Hi everybody,

Is there a way to know if a text selection contains any xml tag?

I get a text object from a selection:

var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var mySelection = myDocument.selection;
var myText = mySelection[0];

The only thing I can do is "myText.associatedXMLElements" to get the XML element in the XML structure... It gives first xml element.

but I need to know which tags I have within my selection.

Would be great a suggestion.

Thanks.

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

alert(app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name)

Shonky

[childsmile]

hi Shonky,

It shows only first element name,like "label"

eg)

<tag><label>My label<caption>my Caption</caption></label></tag>

I need to display label, caption....

If there is any possible way.

Thanks.

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

insert your cursor in my Caption text and run below code:

alert(app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].parent.markupTag.name +", " + app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name)

Shonky

[childsmile]

ok Shonky,

If in the case while selection like i have to get like,

ce:label, ce:section-title like that.

Thanks

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

I think it works for you,

alert(app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].parent.xmlElements[0].markupTag.name+", " + app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name)

Shonky

[childsmile]

According to your code it gives only label and section.

But i need label and section-title.

Thanks

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

Is it your reslut?

alert(app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].parent.xmlElements[0].markupTag.name+", " + app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].parent.xmlElements[1].markupTag.name)

Shonky

[childsmile]

No Shonky, be clear when i am selected the text i have know how many element are taged in the selection.

for example see the picture... otherwise i need the count of element taged..

Thanks

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

dear, hope it will help you, but your cursor must placed inside the "ce:section-title" tag.

paragraph_index = app.selection[0].parentStory.insertionPoints.itemByRange (0, app.selection[0].index).paragraphs.length;

alert (app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs[paragraph_index-2].characters[1].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name +", " + app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs[paragraph_index-1].characters[1].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag.name)

Shonky