MapStylesToTags script

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7 total messages Started by federico_platon Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:00

#1799

Author: federico_platon
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:00

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I would like to create automatically XML Tags using the naming of Paragraph (and Character if possible) styles used in an InDesign document.

I have tried a CS2 script from The Real World InDesign CS3 book, but gives an error (in IDCS3 on a Mac the .as, and the .js, also in CS4 in Windows)

I have found a demo example but it creates some tags in a new document named as detailed in the script)

What I need to find is an script that takes the names of my text styles and makes tags with the same names.

I have checked the Adobe Exchage site but have not found it either.

Anyone can point me to somewhere. TIA

Re: MapStylesToTags script

#1800

Author: loic_aigon
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:34

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Hi
Sth like :

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var myPgSt = doc.paragraphStyles.everyItem().getElements();
for(i=2;i<myPgSt.length;i++) { 	doc.xmlTags.add(myPgSt[i].name); } I needed to start the loop to 2 to avoid the two basic styles as No paragraph & basic paragraphs Loic

Re: MapStylesToTags script

#1802

Author: loic_aigon
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:01

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And in case you may want to relaunch the script...

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var myPgSt = doc.paragraphStyles.everyItem().getElements();

for(i=2;i<myPgSt.length;i++) {

	if(doc.xmlTags.item(String(myPgSt[i].name))==null)
	{
		doc.xmlTags.add(String(myPgSt[i].name));
	}

}

Re: MapStylesToTags script

#1804

Author: federico_platon
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:07

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Loic,

Thank you, thank you very much. Yes it works perfectly, but it requires well formed names, style names cannot start with numbers, include some invalid characters or use spaces.

I would like to be able to start with names of paragraph styles that include an space between two words, and replace it with a low dash.

I think I should add a GREP search/replace, but the code strings I have found use a differnt syntax:

var myRegEx = new RegExp (' ', 'gi') ;
myStyleName = myStyleName.replace(myRegEx, '_');

Could you please adapt it? Again, Thanks in advance

Re: MapStylesToTags script

#1805

Author: Thomas_Bolbro_Nielsen
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:13

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myTagName = myStyleName.replace(" ", "_");

Re: MapStylesToTags script

#1806

Author: loic_aigon
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:55

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And what about changing paragraph styles 's names itselves ? Soon or later, won't you want to map tags to styles ?

Re: MapStylesToTags script

#1807

Author: federico_platon
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:01

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Thanks Thomas I will check it later.

Loic thanks again, you are right. At the end when I prepare the layout for importing an XML data file I may need to map tags to styles and to assign them automatically, by using the same naming, paragraph style names should not include an space or other invalid characters.

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