Removing XML-tags

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3 total messages Started by Ton Kuypers Sat, 11 May 2002 22:43

#21042

Author: Ton Kuypers
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 22:43

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Please... somebody heeeeeeeelp.... What am I doing wrong??? 

I have an InDesign document with 9 frames on a page, all having XML-tags attached to it. After filling these frames with data I duplcate this spread and wat to remove the XML-tags from the first page... But even when using a single page and the following script, it stops with an error after item 6... 

The script:
 tell application "InDesign 2.0"
 	tell active document
 		repeat with i from 1 to the count of (every XML Element)
 			tell XML Element i
 				untag element
 			end tell
 		end repeat
 	end tell
 end tell
 

The result:
 tell application "InDesign 2.0"
 	count every XML Element of active document
 		--> 9
 	untag element XML Element 1 of active document
 	untag element XML Element 2 of active document
 	untag element XML Element 3 of active document
 	untag element XML Element 4 of active document
 	untag element XML Element 5 of active document
 	untag element XML Element 6 of active document
 		--> InDesign 2.0 got an error: XML Element 6 of active document kan niet worden opgevraagd. (can't be found???) 

What is going on, what am I doing wrong??? 

Many thanks in advance 

Ton

Re: Removing XML-tags

#21044

Author: Alan Stearns
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 01:24

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Once you've deleted 5 elements out of 9, there are only 4 left, so you get an error when you try to delete element 6.  You just need to iterate backwards: 

 repeat with i from the count of (every XML Element) to 1 by -1  tell XML Element i untag element end tell end repeat

Re: Removing XML-tags

#21051

Author: Ton Kuypers
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:11

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hmmmmm sounds sooooooo logical... must have been working to much, not being able to figure out this one... 

thanks 

Ton

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