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• • June 5, 2018 at 9:31 am #104207
    Anonymous

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    Help! I import XML with multiple tables. I don’t want the tables. I only want the text and I want that text formatted to a certain paragraph style.

    I am new to scripting and I’m struggling to understand it. Google helped me find scripts for table to text. I added to the script to format the text to the paragraph style. The script works, but with an error message. I would like to use the script without the error message. (Now, the script isn’t working at all!)

    Here’s the script:
    var myDoc=app.activeDocument;
    tableList = myDoc.textFrames.everyItem().tables.everyItem();
    tableList.convertToText(“”,”\r”);
    var myText = myTextFrame.parentStory.characters.everyItem();
    myText.appliedParagraphStyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item(“[Price Section]”);

    Here’s the error message:
    error 30476
    the requested action could not be completed because the object no longer exists
    engine: main
    (script location)
    Line: 3
    Source: tableList.convertToText(“”,”\r”);

  • June 5, 2018 at 2:53 pm #104209
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    A possible option is to not use scripting but XSLT. You can then easily drop tables out and apply styles:

    <pre class=”brush:xml”>
    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
    <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=”https://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&#8221;
    xmlns:xs=”https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&#8221;
    xmlns:aid=”https://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/&#8221;
    xmlns:aid5=”https://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/&#8221;
    exclude-result-prefixes=”xs”
    version=”1.0″>

    <xsl:output method=”xml” encoding=”UTF-8″/>

    <xsl:template match=”Root”>
    <Root xmlns:aid=”https://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/&#8221;
    xmlns:aid5=”https://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/&#8221;
    >
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </Root>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match=”node()|@*”>
    <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select=”node()|@*”/>
    </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match=”table”/>

    <xsl:template match=”p” >

    <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:attribute name=”aid:pstyle”>[Price Section]</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:apply-templates select=”@*|node()”></xsl:apply-templates>

    </xsl:copy>

    </xsl:template>
    </xsl:stylesheet>

    Then you can import and it’s all ok:

    https://image.ibb.co/jEWVdT/Capture_d_e_cran_2018_06_05_a_23_52_49.png

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