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Olav,

first off - don't worry about the terseness of the reply (I never even noticed...), was I not providing enough info in the question? Regardless, I would like to state how much I appreciate your help and that of the other forum visitors from saving my sanity!

Back to the problem at hand - I can't seem to get the "associated XML Element" property to return anything useful. I am basically running through the stories on the page, using this:

repeat with myCounter from 1 to (count stories of myDocument)

and then, a bit later on in the script, I need to access the associated XML Element (all the frames have been tagged using the 'map styles to tags' command) to write some attributes.

However, I am using the following to try and get the id of the xml element that is associated with the text frame that holds the story:

display dialog "this story has text frames with associated xml element ids of " & ((get id of associated XML elements of text frame 1 of story myCounter of myDocument))

but that just returns an error of:
InDesign 2.0.2 got an error: Can't get id of associated XML elements of text frame 1 of story 13 of document "CJOU0514p006".

Any idea where I am going wrong?

Once I have the xml element id, i am then going to try and write some attributes using:
tell XML Element selectedXMLElement to make XML Attribute with properties {name:"author", value:authorName}
does that make sense?

Cheers,

James