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Come to think of it, XML structures can be traversed just like folders with files and subfolders, topic lists with topic names and subtopics, etc. Here is a function that goes through an XML tree and changes the contents of an XML element with a certain tag:



change_tag (app.activeDocument, 'ART_PRICE', '0.0');

function change_tag (doc, myTag, new_value) 
   { 
   for (var i = 0; i < doc.xmlElements.length; i++) 
      { 
      if (doc.xmlElements[i].markupTag.name == myTag) 
         doc.xmlElements[i].contents = new_value; 
      else 
         change_tag (doc.xmlElements[i], myTag, new_value); 
      } 
   }



I seem to remember reading somewhere that this is a slow method compared with XPath (which you can use from CS3) but again, I don't know how that works.

Peter