How to change Tag Element Name in xml structure?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 8, 2019
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Hi Everyone,

I want to change tag name after creating tag through scripting.

Thank you.....

Scripting

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Correct answer Manan Joshi

Ahh, my bad i did not look into it deeply. Well your case would fail if the selection is a textframe as mine would if the selection is a text. So a more appropriate code that handles both the cases would be

var newItem = app.activeDocument.xmlTags.itemByName("Name")  
if(newItem.isValid)
{
     var a;
     try{
          a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0]
     }catch(e){}
     try{
          if(!a)
               a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement
     }catch(e){}
     if(a)
          a.markupTag = newItem 
}

The idea is simply to use try catch block to see if the property exists or not, this should also cater to selection not being tagged as well.

-Manan

M

Manan Joshi

Community Expert

You could use the following

var newItem = app.activeDocument.xmlTags.itemByName("boxed-text")
if(newItem.isValid)
    app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement.markupTag = newItem

Add in the required error checks like the selection is valid or not and so forth.

-Manan

payalm68947498Author

Inspiring

Thank you....

It works when app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement.markupTag = newItem change to

app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0].markupTag = newItem,

only difference is associatedXMLElements[0].

M

Manan JoshiCorrect answer

Community Expert

Ahh, my bad i did not look into it deeply. Well your case would fail if the selection is a textframe as mine would if the selection is a text. So a more appropriate code that handles both the cases would be

var newItem = app.activeDocument.xmlTags.itemByName("Name")  
if(newItem.isValid)
{
     var a;
     try{
          a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElements[0]
     }catch(e){}
     try{
          if(!a)
               a = app.selection[0].associatedXMLElement
     }catch(e){}
     if(a)
          a.markupTag = newItem 
}

The idea is simply to use try catch block to see if the property exists or not, this should also cater to selection not being tagged as well.

-Manan

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