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I need a quick answer to this one. Project is due on Friday.

My InDesign document is tagged with XML tags for export to a database. This database will display info on the Web.

The original document contains formatted text (ie. bold, italic, etc.). To display this properly on the Web, the formatting needs to be replaced by HTML tags. I've got this (see script below).

My problem is that when the bold appears at the start of a paragraph where a new XML tag is located, the script inserts the bold tag outside of the XML tag.

The ideal solution would have been to convert the formatting prior to tagging the document. However, I don't have time to go back and retag 300-plus pages by Friday.

Any help is appreciated.

Here's the script:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	set myDoc to active document
	set myFrame to parent text frame of selection
	tell myDoc
		try
			repeat
				set myText to search myDoc with find attributes {font style:"Bold"}
				select myText
				set font style of selection to "Roman"
				set myPaste to selection
				set contents of selection to "" & myPaste & ""
			end repeat
		end try
		try
			repeat
				set myText to search myDoc with find attributes {font style:"Italic"}
				select myText
				set font style of selection to "Roman"
				set myPaste to selection
				set contents of selection to "" & myPaste & ""
			end repeat
		end try
		display dialog "All finished!�
		Click OK to continue."
	end tell
end tell