ImportXML: file vs. string ?

Hello!
I am working on some XML import solutions for work and have learned quite a bit! I already have the basic XML import and XML rules written and it works great. However, I have come to a point where I would like to parse a string into XMLElements.
I know importXML() will import an xml file and propagate the xml structure within the InDesign document. However, I would like to know if you can do this on a string.
For example, say I have a string: "This big sly fox jumps over the dog."
This string was taken from untagged text sitting in my InDesign document somewhere. I would then like to parse that string somehow and replace that text in the document with the actual XML structure/elements extracted from the string.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks a ton!!
- Dimitri

Hi Dmitri,
Really, the easiest thing to do in this case is to write the XML out to a file and then import it into the structure. You could use the JavaScript XML object like this:
var myString = "This big sly fox jumps over the dog";
var myXMLElement = new XML(myString);
...and then parse the XML, creating XML elements in the InDesign XML structure as you find each element in the JavaScript XML object, but it's still easier (and much faster) to use a temporary file.
Thanks,
Ole

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I have done the following script. But it does not convert the namespaces for the xml elements with no value in it.
var xml = new XML(string);
The value present in string is "<level_1 xsi:nil="true" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>"
When it is converted to xml, the value becomes "<level_1 xsi:nil="true"/>"
On processing the above xml object, am getting an error like this "Uncaught JavaScript exception: Unbound namespace prefix."
Kindly help.
Thanks,
Anitha

Can you post more of the script?
Are you getting the XML file from disk, or a string?

Read from file, compare string and return a part

Hello, is there a reasonable good way to read text file containing information, and if string comparison is successfull, return a nother part of the string.
What i have done so far:
set file_name to (path to desktop as text) & "filename.txt"
set F to open for access tiedosto with write permission
set file_information to (read F)
close access F
(i will be moving this to Application Support/Appname/ when i figure it out).
The data in the file is in following format
12234567890Name1
98765432123Name2
92347928347Name3
What im stuck now is:
I need to compare each line the 10 numbers with search string, if match is found, the name part should be returned.
Any idea's?

You already read in the text file, so you need to put the data thru a repeat loop:
repeat with name_part in paragraphs of file_information
-- ((character 1 thru 10 of name_part) as string) is the first 10 digits of name part
if ((character 1 thru 10 of name_part) as string) is search_string then return name_part
end

ImportXML: file vs. string ?

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