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• • January 15, 2015 at 4:46 am #72701
    Aga Kluzik

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    Is it possible to remove xml comments on import with a script? I know they can be added but I can’t find how to get rid of them…

  • January 21, 2015 at 2:11 am #72815
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi,

    You can definitively hide comments within InDesign. If you do want to remove them through Script, the best i to do load the file content as regular text and do the comments replacement. If you instantiate an XML object, chances are that you change the line breaks and get unexpected results within InDesign.
    Other solution is to use XSLT but it seems disproportionate.

    Loic

  • January 21, 2015 at 4:28 am #72816
    Aga Kluzik

    Member

    I did manage to remove the comments – but as you said, I’m left with many empty lines :/
    But if I load the file as regular text – what will happen with the structure? I need the tekst to be mapped to different styles

  • January 21, 2015 at 4:54 am #72817
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    HI Aga,

    The point is to load the file as text, do the comments removal then output the “cleared” file for import.

    function main() {
    var docs = app.documents,
    doc,
    f,
    nf,
    c,
    r = /<!–.+–>/g;

    if ( !docs.length ) return;

    f = File.openDialog(“Please select XML file”, function(f){ return /\.xml$/i.test(f.name) } );

    if ( !f ) return;

    f.open ( “r” );
    c = f.read();
    f.close();

    nf = new File ( Folder.temp+”/temp.xml” );
    nf.open(‘w’);
    nf.write ( c.replace (r, “” ) );
    nf.close();

    app.activeDocument.importXML ( nf );

    nf.remove();

    }

    main();

  • January 21, 2015 at 6:57 am #72820
    Aga Kluzik

    Member

    OMG, thank you very much – I was struggling with this problem for some time, that seems to be exactly what I needed :)

    If I may exploit you bit more and ask for suggestion – the temporary xml file shows an error – not well-formed and the import is canceled. But after inspection the file seem to be ok and can be imported to InD – but all native font characters are gone…

  • January 21, 2015 at 6:59 am #72821
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    It’s probably related to encoding. Feel free to send me the file through my website (contact) : https://www.ozalto.com

  • January 21, 2015 at 8:11 am #72824
    Aga Kluzik

    Member

    Thank you, indeed the problem was with encoding and was solved with single line: nf.encoding = “UTF-8”.
    Thanks again.

  • January 21, 2015 at 8:15 am #72825
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi,

    Also on f.encoding. But that’s a presumption that the file encoding is actually UTF-8. If one uses another encoding, h will have to modify it.

    Loic

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