XML Element -> get associated pageItem

[patMorita]

I have given XMLElements (that are already tagged) and i need to get the tagged pageItem from the xmlElement, no matter if its a textFrame, a rectangle with a placed graphic or a word in a story.

I tried it with

var pageItem = element.xmlContent.parent;
// Returns Rectangle for tagged Rectangle
// Returns Document for tagged TextFrame (i need the Texframe)
// Returns Story for tagged Text (i need the Text)

What's the best apporach to get the tagged PageItem for the XMLElement?

[rob day]

Hi @patMorita the XMLElement object has a pageItems property that you could check. Here are the other XMLElement properties:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#XMLElement.html

Or you can go the other way and check for a pageItem’s or text’s associatedXMLElements property:

var p = app.activeDocument.selection[0].paragraphs;
var x;
for (var i = 0; i < p.length; i++){
    if (p[i].associatedXMLElements.length != 0) {
        x = p[i].associatedXMLElements;
        for (var j = 0; j < x.length; j++){
            $.writeln(x[j].markupTag.name)
        };   
    } 
};   

[patMorita]

Thank you rob,

I tried pageItems before. But pageItems is always empty (length 0). The other approaches aren't suitable for what i'm planning to do. 😕

Thats why i checked all other properties and for xmlContent it says "The text content or page item referred to by the element. Can return: Text, Story, PageItem, Movie, Sound, Graphic, Table or Cell." But the returned objects aren't what they should be (check initial question)

[patMorita]

Urgs. my bad.

While writing the answer above i rechecked the code. And it has to be "xmlElement.xmlContent" and NOT "xmlElement.xmlContent.parent".