Deleting condition formats but saving the contents

Question

Hello all,
I hope someone from Adobe is monitoring this list, as there is lots of stuff that requires either more work on the ExtendScript coding or on the documentation.
I have almost finalized my conversion from unstructured FrameMaker documents with lots of conditional texts to structured FrameMaker, in which attributes take over the role of the conditions. I now want to delete the condition formats but keep the contents. This is possible via the menu: when I delete a condition format, I get a dialog that allows me to keep the content as unconditional text instead of throwing it out. Guess what ? The Delete() method for a CondFmt object does not take any arguments, and the default method is throwing out the content.
I can do a TextSelection on everything in the document and apply unconditional formatting to it, but that does not include the text in tables. And it is a hassle, as there should really be a way to tell the Delete() method for CondFmt what to do with the content. The options in the dialog should be available via ExtendScript somehow.
Thanks in advance for a quick reply. My deadline is approaching quickly !
Jang

Answer 1

This problem has been driving me crazy for weeks, and I'm pleased to finally declare victory.
The main snarl I ran into was the propVal.osval, which uses an (undocumented) array data type named Objects to hold the CondFmt objects, and it has no constructor, so it's not easy to reset. You can reset the isval all day long without effect, and building your TextPropVal from scratch has a nasty habit of crashing Frame. It's late here, so please excuse the uncommented code, but the following will make all text in your main flow unconditional, allowing you to delete your CondFmts without deleting the text.
var findProps, foundRange, foundCond;
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var firstPgf = doc.MainFlowInDoc.FirstTextFrameInFlow.FirstPgf;
var docStart = new TextLoc(firstPgf,0);
var currCondFmt = doc.FirstCondFmtInDoc;
var findProps = AllocatePropVals(1);
          findProps[0].propIdent.num = Constants.FS_FindCondTextInCondTags;
          findProps[0].propVal.valType = Constants.FT_Strings;
          findProps[0].propVal.ssval[0]= currCondFmt.Name;
while (currCondFmt.ObjectValid()){
          foundRange = doc.Find (docStart, findProps);
                    while (foundRange.beg.obj.ObjectValid())
                    foundCond = doc.GetTextPropVal (foundRange.beg, Constants.FP_InCond);
                    foundCond.propVal.isval = new Ints();
                    while(foundCond.propVal.osval.length>0)
                                        foundCond.propVal.osval.pop();
                    doc.SetTextPropVal (foundRange, foundCond);
                    foundRange = doc.Find (docStart, findProps);
          currCondFmt = currCondFmt.NextCondFmtInDoc;
          findProps[0].propVal.ssval[0]= currCondFmt.Name;