How find the following-sibling::, preceding-sibling:: & parent:: element and attributes using evaluateXPathExpression option in indesign

[Jackkisten]

Dear All,

How find the following-sibling::, preceding-sibling::  & parent:: element and attributes using evaluateXPathExpression option in indesign.

Please suggest me best way to find xml element and attributes.

Regards,

~Jackkisten

[Loic.Aigon]

Hi

Be aware xpath implementation in ExtendScript is all but exhaustive. Most of those axes won't work.

Due to the one-pass nature of this implementation, the following XPath expressions are specifically

excluded:

 No ancestor or preceding-sibling axes, including .., ancestor::, preceding-sibling::.

See xpath limitations in Adobe Scripting guide for more details.

Loic

Ozalto | Productivity Oriented - Loïc Aigon

[Jackkisten]

Hi All,

Then how we can use xpath in indesign to find the xml node

[Loic.Aigon]

Well, you can still use evaluateXPathExpression to retrieve xmlElements and once grabbed look for following/preceeding-siblings by using indeces or collection nextItem(), previousItem() special functions.

For parent, you can use…parent property of any xmlElement…

FWIW,

Loic

[Jackkisten]

Hi Loic,

Could you possible to give some example and sample code for evaluateXPathExpression, collection.

Thanks in advance!!

Regards,

~Jackkisten

[Loic.Aigon]

XPATH : XPath Syntax

evaluateXPathExpression:Adobe InDesign CS6 (8.0) Object Model JS: XMLElement

Sample codes all around…