DOM Element from a Text frame?

Hi.
In CS2 I used to get an IDOMElement from an ITextFrame. Now that ITextFrame is removed, I'm don't know how to get a equivalent IDOMElement since neither IMultiColumnTextFrame nor ITextFrameColumn aggregate IDOMElement.
Any hints?

Hi Tracey,
It turned out to be really simple: you can translate between text locations and element locations using two methods (one for each direction).
var oTRange = oDoc.TextSelection;
var oTLoc = oTRange.beg; /* beg and end are two TLoc objects, which will be the same
if no text is selected */
var oELoc = oDoc.TextLocToElementLoc( TLoc );
Kind regards
Jang

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