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• • August 19, 2015 at 12:44 am #77434
    Rose Sall

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    Hello All
    I have a small issue. I have an arraylist of xml tags that i am reading from a xml file. I am looping through the arraylist using FOR EACH and displaying the tags as nested tags in the indesign document. For ex: <tag1><tag2><tag3>HELLO ALL</tag3></tag2></tag1>

    I want to add the xml attribute values to the tags. But add the attribute and its value to the first tag only. But since i am looping the values are getting added to all the tags.

    Can anyone please tell me what i should do? I want the output as :
    <tag1 attribute=value><tag2><tag3>HELLO ALL</tag3></tag2></tag1>

    Please help

    Thanks

  • August 27, 2015 at 1:05 am #77599
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    While the idea is pretty clear, it’s not with the technology you are using. FOR EACH evokes XSLT, while arrayList is nothing that I know of (is a that a JS array you are talking about or an AS3 arrayCollection ? ).

    If the tags are exactly names tag1, you could use a xpath expression on the root element :

    app.activeDocument.xmlElements[0].evaluateXPathExpression (“//tag1”);

    That would return an array of XMLElements tagged “tag1”.

    If tags have different names but their position condition the attributes definition, then it’s also reachable through XPath but it needs a better context definition here.

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