Unwanted Default Formatting with import XML

Question

I have a problem of unwanted default formatting with import XML. Under InDesign CS6, I  import XML with merge mode.
One frame is difficult to apply with the placeholder, I should put the XML element A inside by hand. InDesign automatically applies the character style of the child element B to the following text in element A.
I tried the steps of this article http://indesignsecrets.com/fixing-unwanted-default-formatting.php/comment-page-1#comment-5 62875
But it doesn't work for me.
Dose anyone have an idea? Thanks.

Answer 1

Kasyan, I agree with you!
So this is what i did in xslt.
First I added the following namespace to the stylesheet.
xmlns:file="http://www.jclark.com/xt/java/java.io.File"
This is not supported by indesign, you have to do this with a parser. I used saxon to parse the xml.
And this is the part for the existing file lookup.
If the file exists the image is placed as a href, if it doesn't exist i put the name of the image between brackets. In this case we can see in which image doesn't exist.
<xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="file:exists(file:new(string($imagefile)))">                                         
          <xsl:element name="Articleimage">
               <xsl:attribute name="href">file://../images/<xsl:value-of select="Properties/Property[@field = 9]"/></xsl:attribute>
          </xsl:element>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:text>[</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="Properties/Property[@field = 9]"/><xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
      </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
I hope it helps for others.
Good luck!
Glen