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dhishok
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September 15, 2011
Question

unable to define the XML tags with colon in XPath using gluecode

  • September 15, 2011
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Hi Everyone,

I am working on XML with InDesign CS4. I need to do some automation stuffs for those. In my InDesign document, the XML tags (Eg. <ab:para>, <ab:figure> & etc…) name contains colon characters. If i try to loop these tags through gluecode using XPath expression, the script throws me a error like 'Adobe InDesign cannot processXPath expression'.

Can anyone look into this and suggest me a right solution.

Thanks in advance.

Thiyagu

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Anonymous
September 15, 2011

No need to give namespace [ab:] in xpath expression, you can give element name without namespace it will work.

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கற_பன___Imagine_
Inspiring
September 15, 2011

Hi thiyagu,

    this.xpath = "//para";

    this.xpath = "//figure";

Try this without the XML namespace in XPath Expression.  it's not tested code,  but it may works.

Regards,

Nagaraj

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dhishokAuthor
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September 16, 2011

Thank you Nagaraj and Dev. It is working fine now.

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