Many thanks Loic, your script works. You’re great!

Hi Obi-wan, you’re right. I’m sorry if I didn’t clear it. We used “Insert Special Character > Marker > Current Page Number” to be inserted on MasterPage to auto page a document. Unfortunately, our client wants to format a page number when it reach on a 4-digit pages (ex., 1,000; 1,001; 1,002…) which is no option in Numbering & Section option in InDesign. That’s why I’m looking for a script to avoid manualing.

Thanks for your suggestion David and Kai.

This site really helped us a lot. I was overwhelmed by the help of everyone. More power to this site and also to all of you guys.

Sorry for my bad english :)

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();}}