Map Styles to XML Tags

Hi,
My InDesign cc2014 freezes when I apply manually 'mapStylestoXMLTags' to a document. any idea?
Thank you,

+1 for Harb's reply.
As for an answer, as much as it is, if indesign freezes when manually mapping styles to tags (or the other way around), there is not much you can do. In my experience that always happens if the indesign document is large. Most you can do is post a bug report with Adobe and hope for the best.
As a workaround, you can iterate through the textStyleRanges, test each one and create the xml structure, but it's not a easy solution.

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How to apply paragraph styles to xml tag?

Hi All,
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Hi Learner,
Try the below js code.
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 }catch(e){
 alert(e);
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thx,
csm_phil

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I want to assign xml-tags to existing paragraph styles in InDesign CS6 on a Mac 10.6.8. The xml itself is organized like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
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First, I would probably do a search and replace to remove the group element using a text editor (the <artikeltextgruppe> and </artikeltextgruppe> elements). They really are not needed.
Second, I usually create my styles with the same names as the elements themselves. Then, after the XML is imported, I use the "map tags to styles" command from the Structure pane.
I copied and pasted the single artikel element to create 4 records, added a varition of an image to each element record. Once the paragraph styles were mapped, your XML looked like this in a two column format (to get all 4 records on a page)...
By default, ID will create a single line to a single line in the XML. So if you desire elements to be on their own line, the XML needs to be formatted that way. If you need different styling within a paragraph, you need to create character styles and alter the elements within an XML group and or paragraph and add the code in the XML accordingly or post process once inside of ID.
I always need to take the XML I am given and reformat, move elements with the tree, change links to images, remove tabs and or spaces where I do not want them, tag for character styles, etc., to get close to how I want the initial format to be.
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How do I export character styles as XML?

I have a load of InDesign CS4 files. They contain paragraph styles, but do not appear to have any explicit character styles, though do contain content that is rendered as italic, bold, superscript content etc.
I have associated the paragraph styles with some imported tags and exported them successfully as XML, BUT I can't find a way of grabbing hold of the character styles in the same way.
Very grateful for some guidance on this.
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Brad

It sounds like your problem is that the character styling has been applied ad hoc - i.e., without character styles.
I would suggest creating all the character styles you need/want first. Then, you can use the Find/Change feature to find all text with a certain styling, and apply the appropriate character style to it. You'll need to think through the order in which you do the various Find/Change operations. For example, you will want to find all cases of Bold + Italic and replace with a Bold + Italic character style before you carry out the process for text that is simply either Bold or Italic.
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INDESIGN GLITCH: Creating an XML file from Indesign Layout - Issue "Using more than one line of GREP" & "Map Styles to Tags"

I currently create XML from InDesign CC by Mapping Style to Tags.
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I have found through trouble-shooting that InDesign is unable to "Map Styles to Tags" for more than one line of GREP. I therefore have to chose which line of GREP to automatically tag and which lines to manually tag.
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Thanks,

OK. The best I can suggest is running a Find/Change like this:
Which will actually apply the character style to the italics (and I would do the bold as well just to make certain). Then run the Map Styles to Tags again, using the Apply by Name. Which will tag the italics.
I don't know why ID can map to the bold and not the italic character style. It either should do them both (as in this instance) or none at all as the character styles are not actually applied by the grep, just the styling from the character styles.
Mike

Script to map xml tags to para styles

I am using the 'FindChangeByList.jsx' to format a series of text files.
I realise that I can map tags to styles using the 'Tags" palette.
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If you want through find and change here below is a function for apply tag on paragraph style
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
addtags("A Head", "Head");
addtags("Text", "P");
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How to apply multiple styles for nested tags in XML?

Say you import this XML into InDesign:
<Root>

Bolded and Italicized

</Root>
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Notice the XML is generated dynamically and tags order is not enforced. Also, there's an additional underline tag that can be nested with these two.
So far I have tried to use GREP styles (with paragraph styles), but these do not have effect in the XML tags.
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Create new tags for every formatting combination. Not what I really want because I could en up with a lot of tags each one with a corresponding styles.
Create InDesign XML rules to apply character styles automatically based on the tags
Use character styles in the XML with the aid namespace referencing InDesign styles. Will this really work?
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Juan

I'd say that you should create tags not for appearances, but for semantic content. Specifying formatting styles in your XML betrays your lack of familiarity with the format, because the last thing you'd want to do would be to use HTML markup in the middle of your XML. If you have content that's supposed to be both bolface and oblique - say, a warning - then it's marked up as
<warning>Never refer directly to formatting in your XML markup, only to content types!</warning>
If I had a document that was written in the style you suggest - one with lots of overlapping local formatting - I'd look at developing a better style guide that told the writers that doing so would be bad form. Because, you know, many of the writers I deal with are addicted to forms of emphasis that do nothing useful whatsover for their readership - they only serve to overemphasize the authorial voice of the writers.
Maybe you could tell us why you need these overlapping forms of styling, and we could suggest other InDesign formatting tools (like line styles or nested styles) that would help you get the appearance you want without crowding styling markup into your XML - where, strictly speaking, it doesn't really belong.

[CS5 JS] Problem in Applying character styles xml tag names

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e.g. 1
<italic>This is a italic text with superscript value</italic>
e.g.2
This is a superscript text with <bold>Bold superscript</bold>
<italic> mapped to character style "italic" and
 mapped to character style "sup"
In my java script I already mapped the xml tags to specific character styles. In some of the cases (see e.g.1 and e.g.2) I need to map it to other character styles.
In e.g.1 I need to apply a new character styles "italicSup" for the text "superscript value" same way
In e.g.2 I need to apply a new character styles "BoldSup" for the text "Bold superscript".
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Green4ever

FYI, I am using
Win Xp-SP2, CS5 7.0.3

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- John

Autogenerate XML tag names from other style palettes

Map Styles to Tags works great when you already have a bunch of tags named identically to the other styles you want to map. Today, however, I had to manually create and type in tag names to match about 25 paragraph styles. Ick!
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Problem mapping styles to tags

How do I prevent creation of the "Story" tag during mapping of styles to tags?
I need to achieve the following using a script:
I have two XMElements in the structure view, say Title and Body as follows:
<Root>
<Title/>
<Body/>
</Root>
Also, I have two text frames in a document. The first text frame has text with parastyle named "titlestyle".
And the second text frame has text with parastyle named "bodystyle".
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<Title></Title>
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<Title>here are the contents</Title>
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Hi,
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Error messages when using Mapping Styles to tags

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Steve M

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Getting unwanted values between the XML tags in XSLT mapping

Hi Folks
I have come across a very strange situation with my xslt mapping.
I am getting unwated values "11" between xml tags
as follows
<Tag>0001</Tag>
11
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I am not sure why I am getting these values in between the tags. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi David,
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<Order>
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Mapping of XML tags with column

My xml structure is :
<PARAMS>
<ROWSET>
<ROW NUM="1">
<SID>man123</SID>
<PO>
<PO>OBJ1</PO>
<PI>
<PI>PARENTOBJ1 INSTANCE</PI>
</PI>
</PO>
</ROW>
</params>
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CREATE TABLE TEMP(SID VARCHAR2(20),PO POBJECT_T)
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CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE PINSTANCE_T AS OBJECT (PI VARCHAR2(255),CO COBJECT_T);
CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE POBJECT_T AS OBJECT (PO VARCHAR2(255),PI PINSTANCE_T);
To store this XML directly into table i have to have Column with name "PO" (same as XML tag).I am using this same table to store other XML with same tags . With this limitation its difficult to do so.Is there any way to map XML tag to column with different name????
Thanks

Hi,
thx for your Reply,
seems to work basicly but i get now in the IDE warnings with:
"Data binding will not be able to detect changes when using
square bracket operator. For Array, please use
ArrayCollection.getItemAt() instead. "
And how can i access the next item something like this didnt
work right
try someniceid.lastResult["some-root"]["someother-root"]
I had to use single quotes (') to get it to work.
Any ideas?
Kind regards,
Marko

Map styles to tags v. Map tags to styles

Hi everyone,
Indesign CS4 has an option in the tags panel to:
1) Map styles to tags
and
2) Map tags to styles
Does anyone know what the difference between these two options are?
Appreciate any help.

Tags and Styles serve two separate functions.
A Tag defines data that belongs to a specific element and is enclosed with an opening and closing tag.
example: <element> This copy will be used for a headline </element>
A Style defines how that data will appear with specific attributes: font, font size, color, etc.
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