Photoshop script - XML.descendants() cannot work with instances of this class

[Ghoul Fool]

I created an accidental typo in a line of code for a Photoshop script:

var x = parseFloat(app.activeDocument..activeLayer.bounds[0]);

See where I went wrong...

.. instead of .

It should have been

var x = parseFloat(app.activeDocument.activeLayer.bounds[0]);

However, the error I got was:

XML.descendants() cannot work with instances of this class

And it got me thinking, what does that error actually refer to? - not that I was using XML in this case. Does double dot in this case, break dot notation?

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

Maybe this will help