XML double entermark merged xml tag affected

[kanagakumar]

Dear Team,

When I used this grep command see below the screenshot, two enter marks It will combine into a single enter mark. In this case, the XML tag was removed. Please see the screenshot for your reference.

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1. After Figure moved to the top of the page:

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2. One empty entermark created with xml tag:

 

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3. Please see the story board xml tag (empty entermark is "artgroup" xml tag)

 

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4. When i used this grep command, it was merged the entermark but xml tag was removed:

5. The second entermark artgroup xml tag was removed, it is affect in xml structure.

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My requirement is:

It is necessary to merge two entermarks into one, without affecting the XML structure. Now i manually merged the entermark.

If possible, please provide your solutions or suggestions. It is very helpful for us.

Thanks

kk

[kanagakumar]

Dear Team,

I found one script in chartGPT but this coding was not run in the indesign, please advise

my xml tag name is "artgroup"

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var doc = app.activeDocument;
var xmlElements = doc.xmlElements;

// Function to search for a specific tag name
function findXMLTags(tagName) {
var results = [];
for (var i = 0; i < xmlElements.length; i++) {
searchTag(xmlElements[i], tagName, results);
}
return results;
}

// Recursive function to search through XML elements
function searchTag(xmlElement, tagName, results) {
if (xmlElement.markupTag.name === tagName) {
results.push(xmlElement);
}
for (var i = 0; i < xmlElement.xmlElements.length; i++) {
searchTag(xmlElement.xmlElements[i], tagName, results);
}
}

// Example usage: Find all <title> tags
var titleTags = findXMLTags("artgroup");
for (var i = 0; i < titleTags.length; i++) {
$.writeln(titleTags[i].contents); // Print the contents of each <title> tag
}

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Thanks

kk

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi @kanagakumar ,

without looking deeper into details here, you could try to remove one of the two characters and not set a new one.

Your GREP could be rewritten with a positive lookbehind or a positive lookahead, depending if the first or the second character of two should be removed.

Either remove an end of paragraph character that precedes an end of paragraph character:

\r(?=\r)

Or do it the other way and remove an end of paragraph character that comes after another end of paragraph character:

(?<=\r)\r

In both cases leave the Change to field empty.

However, without any sample document, I cannot be sure, that one of my suggestions would work for you.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[kanagakumar]

Dear Uwe Laubender,

Yes, This is a "Great" comment. It works perfectly and has no impact on XML coding.

Thanks a lot "Uwe Laubender".

KK