Adobe 65009333 Scripting Guide - Page 81
Removing items from the XML structure, Creating an XML comment, Creating an XML processing instruction
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XML Scripting XML Elements 81 var myDocument = app.documents.item(0); var myRootXMLElement = myDocument.xmlElements.item(0); //Duplicate the XML element containing "A" var myNewXMLElement = myRootXMLElement.xmlElements.item(0).duplicate(); //Change the content of the duplicated XML element. myNewXMLElement.contents = myNewXMLElement.contents + " duplicate"; Removing items from the XML structure To break the association between a text object and an XML element, use the untag method, as shown in the following script. The objects are not deleted, but they are no longer tied to an XML element (which is deleted). Any content of the deleted XML element becomes associated with the parent XML element. If the XML element is the root XML element, any layout objects (text or page items) associated with the XML element remain in the document. (For the complete script, see UntagElement.) var myXMLElement = myDocument.xmlElements.item(0).xmlElements.item(-2); myXMLElement.untag(); Creating an XML comment XML comments are used to make notes in XML data structures. You can add an XML comment using something like the following script fragment (from the MakeXMLComment tutorial script): var myRootXMLElement = myDocument.xmlElements.item(0); var myXMLElement = myRootXMLElement.xmlElements.item(1); myXMLElement.xmlComments.add("This is an XML comment."); Creating an XML processing instruction A processing instruction (PI) is an XML element that contains directions for the application reading the XML document. XML processing instructions are ignored by InCopy but can be inserted in an InCopy XML structure for export to other applications. An XML document can contain multiple processing instructions. An XML processing instruction has two parts, target and value. The following is an example of an XML processing instruction: The following script fragment shows how to add an XML processing instruction (for the complete script, see MakeProcessingInstruction): var myRootXMLElement = myDocument.xmlElements.item(0); var myXMLProcessingInstruction = myRootXMLElement.xmlInstructions.add("xml-stylesheet type=\"text/css\" ", "href=\"generic.css\""); Working with XML attributes XML attributes are "metadata" that can be associated with an XML element. To add an attribute to an element, use something like the following script fragment. An XML element can have any number of XML attributes, but each attribute name must be unique within the element (that is, you cannot have two attributes named "id").