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• • May 8, 2017 at 12:43 am #94303
    Michael Angelo

    Member

    Hi Everyone,

    Need help InDesign masters. Please provide me a script that search for an XML tag and remove it including its content. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

  • May 8, 2017 at 9:35 am #94317
    Loic Aigon

    Member

    <pre class=”brush: javascript”>
    var main = function() {
    var doc = app.properties.activeDocument,
    root, xes, n;
    if ( !doc ) return;
    root = doc.xmlElements[0];
    xes = root.evaluateXPathExpression ( “.//myTagName” );
    n = xes.length;

    while ( n– ) xes[n].remove();

    }

    var u;

    app.doScript ( “main()”,u,u,UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, “The Script” );

    Where “myTagName” is the name of the tag you want to remove. Be aware that with tagged texts, only the text object will ne removed while the container will remain.

    HTH

    Loic

  • May 9, 2017 at 6:23 am #94368
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    Hi Loic,

    There is an error in the script, can you please check and fix the error. I’m trying this on InDesign CS5

    
<pre class="brush: javascript">
var main = function() {
var doc = app.properties.activeDocument, root, xes, n;
if ( !doc ) return;
root = doc.xmlElements[0];
xes = root.evaluateXPathExpression ( ".//SalaryDescription" );
n = xes.length;
while ( n– ) xes[n].remove();
}

    var u;

    app.doScript ( "main()",u,u,UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "The Script" );


  • May 9, 2017 at 6:59 am #94372
    Michael Angelo

    Member

    Thanks Loic. Unfortunately, I also receive an error with the script. But this one works…

    var doc = app.activeDocument;

    var myRuleSet = new Array (new Function1)
    with(doc)
    {
    var elements = xmlElements;
    __processRuleSet(elements.item(0), myRuleSet);
    }

    function Function1()
    {
    this.name = “Function1”;
    this.xpath = “//article”;
    this.apply = function(myElement, myRuleProcessor)
    {
    with(myElement)
    {
    var ec=myElement.xmlElements.count();
    $.writeln(ec);
    for(var i=0; i<ec; i++)
    {
    if(myElement.xmlElements[i].markupTag.name==”<tag_name_being_deleted>”)
    {
    myElement.xmlElements[i].remove();
    }}}
    return false;
    }

    // alert(“Process completed”);

    //Built in function starts here.
    function __processRuleSet (root, ruleSet, prefixMappingTable)
    {
    var mainRProcessor = __makeRuleProcessor(ruleSet, prefixMappingTable);

    try {
    __processTree(root, mainRProcessor);
    __deleteRuleProcessor(mainRProcessor);
    } catch (e) {
    __deleteRuleProcessor(mainRProcessor);
    throw e;
    }
    }

    function __makeRuleProcessor(ruleSet, prefixMappingTable){
    // Get the condition paths of all the rules.
    var pathArray = new Array();
    for (i=0; i<ruleSet.length; i++)
    {pathArray.push(ruleSet[i].xpath);}
    try
    {var ruleProcessor = app.xmlRuleProcessors.add(pathArray, prefixMappingTable);}
    catch(e){throw e;}
    var rProcessor = new ruleProcessorObject(ruleSet, ruleProcessor);
    return rProcessor;}

    function ruleProcessorObject(ruleSet, ruleProcessor)
    {this.ruleSet = ruleSet;
    this.ruleProcessor = ruleProcessor;}

    function __deleteRuleProcessor(rProcessor) {
    // remove the XMLRuleProcessor object
    rProcessor.ruleProcessor.remove();

    // delete the object properties
    delete rProcessor.ruleProcessor;
    delete rProcessor.ruleSet;

    // delete the object itself
    delete rProcessor;
    }

    function __processTree (root, rProcessor)
    {
    var ruleProcessor = rProcessor.ruleProcessor;
    try
    {var matchData = ruleProcessor.startProcessingRuleSet(root);
    __processMatchData(matchData, rProcessor);
    ruleProcessor.endProcessingRuleSet();}
    catch (e)
    {ruleProcessor.endProcessingRuleSet();
    throw e;}}

    function __processMatchData(matchData, rProcessor)
    {var ruleProcessor = rProcessor.ruleProcessor;
    var ruleSet = rProcessor.ruleSet;
    while (matchData != undefined)
    {var element = matchData.element;
    var matchRules = matchData.matchRules;
    var applyMatchedRules = true;

    for (var i=0; i<matchRules.length && applyMatchedRules && !ruleProcessor.halted; i++)
    {applyMatchedRules = (false == ruleSet[matchRules[i]].apply(element, rProcessor));}
    matchData = ruleProcessor.findNextMatch();}}

  • May 9, 2017 at 7:57 am #94374
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    Neither this worked, sorry!

  • May 9, 2017 at 8:07 am #94375
    Loic Aigon

    Member

    maybe some item associated with a xml element is locked or its layer locked.

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