Indesign text tagging

Question

Hi
Is it possible to tag a portion of text, so a Text or Word object without it sitting in a Story?
Something like this.
var app:Application = InDesign.app;
var doc:Document = app.activeDocument;
var root:XMLElement = doc.xmlElements.firstItem()
var selection:Object = doc.selection[0];
var node:XMLElement = root.xmlElements.add("MyTagName");
XMLElement(node).markup(selection);
This throws the following error
Error: Cannot change the element to be associated with this object. Try creating a new element.
or
var node:XMLElement = root.xmlElements.add("MyTagName", selection);
puts the new element inside a Story element.
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

The correct format is:
<ASCII-MAC>
<vsn:9>
(ie, the text encoding in one line and the ID tagged file version in the next)
You ended up with an empty text frame because the your source file has "Classic Mac" linebreaks. InDesign CC requires that tagged files have Unix linebreaks.
As far as I know, MS Word doesn't offer the option to choose the line endings of text files (at least my old Mac Word 2004 doesn't). If your version allows that, you're set. If not, you can open your file in a text editor that enables linebreak options, like the free Text Wrangler or its paid big brother BBEdit. Alternatively, you can use a utility like LineBreak ( https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12045/linebreak ) to do the conversion in a convenient drag-and-drop operation.
Another advice: don't put the paragraph style tag in one line and its correspondent paragraph in the next line. Your original sample:
<pstyle:Title>
The Economics of European Integration
<pstyle:Subtitle>
Limits and Prospects
when imported as is, will ended up with unnecessary blank lines. This happens because you're telling InDesign to:
apply the paragraph style Title,
insert a paragraph return
insert the string "The Economics of European Integration"
insert a paragraph return
apply the paragraph style Subtitle,
insert a paragraph return
insert the string "Limits and Prospects"
insert a paragraph return
The blank lines you'll see in the final result in ID are caused by the paragraph returns that exist in your tagged file, right afther the paragraph style tag (highlighted in bold above).
The proper usage follows:
<pstyle:Title>The Economics of European Integration
<pstyle:Subtitle>Limits and Prospects
By formatting the tagged file this way, you'll avoid those extra blank lines.
Hope it helps.