Export text from textflow

I have a custom editor built in flash that I want to convert to the Text Layout Framework.
I have all contents in containers, but when I do an export to XML, I want to know what content was displayed in what container.
I tried to do this by going through al the textlines in the textflow; I can get all textline objects, but cannot get to the content and the formatting information.
Could anyone give me a hint on how to do this? I would already be happy if I could do a separate export for each container.
Thanks for your reply!
Arend.

Hi Robin,
You are a genius! This is what I needed.
Two other things that come up:
1. it should be possible to do a similar thing for individual text lines, but I don't understand how to calculate the position in the textflow from the data in the TextLine object.
Could you tell me how to do this?
2. is it possible to tell the flowcomposer to put a certain part of the flow into a certain container?
Arend.

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