Back after a few weeks on a non-Adobe urgent project plus some recovery ...
I'm wondering if anyone has XML / XMLrule scripting experience sufficient to give me at least a hint on the following challenge. I have discovered the online scripting tutorials, documents and sample files (huge collection!)... unfortunately I can't find even the beginnings of something addressing what looks to me like a common and highly scriptable challenge.
My example is below. I can't find code snippets for any of the following:
- traversing a set of elements to find and select a set of desired elements
- inserting a selected set (range?) of elements into a new parent
This is pretty clear when done manually in the user interface, but opaque in the scripting / XMLrules environment.
Anybody got any hints? Or a book / resource that digs in deep enough?
Thanks much,
Pete
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Example of the problem:
Imagine at some level of a tag structure you have ANY kind of repeating tag sequence. E.g. (in highly abbreviated form)
<people>
<name>
<address>
<phone>
<name>
<address>
<phone>
<name>
<address>
<phone>
<projects>
<name>
<startdate>
<enddate>
<name>
<startdate>
<enddate>
What I want is to group sets of elements underneath a new parent, something like
(virtually)... GatherElementsUnder(XPath,StartWithElement,NewParentElement)
ie
GatherElementsUnder(/people,name,person)
GatherElementsUnder(/projects,name,project)
would produce
<people>
<person>
<name>
<address>
<phone>
<person>
<name>
<address>
<phone>
<person>
<name>
<address>
<phone>
<projects>
<project>
<name>
<startdate>
<enddate>
<project>
<name>
<startdate>
<enddate>
I've answered this now. Sample script link, plus commentary, is here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4963977