Map tags to object styles?

Hello ID users & developers!
Well, now i know that tags from imported xml can be mapped to corresponding paragraph or table styles of ID document.
But, if i have to map any tag to an object style?
I import images with <Image href='image_path' /> tag.
Now, how can i bind it to Image object style?
Thanks in advance, Alex.

It does not.
It would be nice though some day.

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Map XML tag to an object style

Hi everyone!
I am not sure this is the correct place to post it, but i didn't find any "tagging" department of the forums.
I do import some XML into ID document.
Text nodes of my XML are imported properly, and i can map any tag of XML to one of the paragraph or table styles.
But, when i import any images (or another ID documents) with <... href="..." />, how can i map that tag to an object style?
///////////// It would be very helpful for example when i'm going to set the stroke of 1pt to all of inline images of text frame.
Please any feedback would be helpful.
Alex.

I will try to give an example, just to give a kick start ........... you need little bit of tweaking to meet your actual requirement:
suppose you have an xml element "tag" having an attribute "@href" with object style name defined as it's value.
<tag href="object_style_name">
"object_style_name" is a object style and should exist in your document. To map the tag with the corresponding object style value you can use XMLRules in JS:
//NOTE: NOT TESTED, BUT SHOULD WORK
#include "glue code.jsx"
main();
function main(){
if (app.documents.length != 0){
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myRuleSet = new Array (
new findObjAttribute("//*[@href]")
with(myDoc){
var elements = xmlElements;
__processRuleSet(elements.item(0), myRuleSet);
else{
alert("You have no document open!");
exit();
function findObjAttribute(XPATH){
this.name = "findObjAttribute";
this.xpath = XPATH;
this.apply = function(myElement, myRuleProcessor)
//Just to check whether the collect element is selected
var elmName=myElement.markupTag.name;
var styleName=myElement.xmlAttributes.itemByName("href").value;
with(myElement){
try {
applyObjectStyle(myDoc.objectStyles.item(styleName), true);
} catch(e){};
return true;
HTH,
Pankaj Chaturvedi

Js for Structure; XML; Map Tags to Styles...

Hi all
I am trying this forum entry again under a different heading. I may have confused readers.
I have a ID file that contains XML content and lots of Character and Paragraph Styles.
There is a map that connects Tags <-> Styles.
This file is working fine. This file is now my "Template File"
I have written a script that imports XML content of the same kind into a new file.
The script also imports or loads all the Character and Paragraph Styles from the "Template File" into the "New File".
Now I would like to import the maping between Tags <-> Styles into my "New File".
Manually this is an easy process in ID, in the Structure pane, top right corner, is a pulldown, one of the commands is called "Map Tags to Styles..."
I load the map and my "New File" looks perfect.
I would now like to include this function into my script.
So far I could not find any code samples for this.
Can anybody help?
Thanks Romano

Thank you Fred
No this imports the Tags only...
what I am looking for is this:
My script needs to "call this menu, press the Load... button, choose a file, import from that file"
It would be some simple thing like loading the colour swatches from another file...
app.activeDocument.loadSwatches(myStyleFile);
but would say something like app.activeDocument."loadTagsStylesMap"(myStyleFile);
Romano

Map tags to styles (CS6, Applescript)

I want to map a series of tags to styles in InDesign, but this seems not to work.
The inverse, mapping styles to tags, works!
Any idea? Thanks for your help!
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
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Hello, try
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Map tags to style problem.

Hello!
I have a problem with indesign that i cannot understand. On the picture below, you can see my structure. PARAGRAPH is the tag of the text frame. Inside the text frame i have tagged the text. The things that should be paragraph style 1 (bröd) is tagged "PARAGRAPH1". The things that should be paragraph style 2 (bröd_start) is tagged "PARAGRAPH2".
I use map tags to style to map the different tags to a specific style. It looks like this:
When I run the cursor over the text I can see the tags changing to the correct one in the tags panel. But the paragraph style is always "Bröd". It seems as if the tags to style is not applied!
The reason that I want to to this is so I can manage first lines better. I map the first word of a "new" line to "Bröd_Start" so that the first line is aligned flush left. Like this:
Anyone has any ideas why this is not working like it should?!
Tank you!
Regards,
Lukas

Hi,
Thanks for sharing the document. I tried with your file and scrolling is working fine. I could choose and select the styles also.
Did the bug happen after importing XML or before as well?
Do you have other documents open while you are working on this document?
Did you try cleaning your preferences and cache? If not, you can give this a try and let me know if the problem still remains.
Regards,
Pooja

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.
So, say I have an Indesign document that has a predefined paragraph style named: Headline (with attributes of Times New Roman Bold, 18 Point) and I import a file that is tagged like my example. I can map the tag "element" to the style "Headline" and the import can automate the process like this:
This copy will be used for a headline

[CS2][JS] Map tags to styles

Hi
I would like to map styles to tags and map tags to styles using a predefined file....
I've tried using ...
var thepath="/Volumes/test/Mapping.indd";
var myImportfile=new File(thepath);
app.activeDocument.xmlImportMaps.add(myImportfile);
app.activeDocument.xmlExportMaps.add(myImportfile);
... but it raises an error... missing parameter...
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanx
Tim

Hi Eric,
I just checked the link, and it's working fine. Try again?
Also, I'd missed this thread earlier--what Tim is asking about (loading a tag to style mapping from a file) can't be done directly in the user interface (as far as I can tell), so it can't be done directly from scripting. Instead, you'd have to open the file containing the tag to style mapping, then transfer the mapping one import/export map at a time to the target file.
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Ole

Map Tags to Style Pallet Issue

When in the 'Map Tags to Style' pallet I can't scroll by either moving the scroll bar or clicking up/down arrows. Also the only way to select a style sheet is to click exactly on the paragraph icon. The scrolling is driving me crazy, anyone else have this issue in this pallet in ID CC (using ID from cloud and all updates have been run)?

Hi,
Thanks for sharing the document. I tried with your file and scrolling is working fine. I could choose and select the styles also.
Did the bug happen after importing XML or before as well?
Do you have other documents open while you are working on this document?
Did you try cleaning your preferences and cache? If not, you can give this a try and let me know if the problem still remains.
Regards,
Pooja

Map tags to styles by javascript

Hi All,
I need to ‘Map Tags to Styles’ is this possible by javascript?
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hasvi

Hello hasvi,
What I understood in Jongware & Everyone statement. You expect everything into this forum, I seen you every post you always expecting or requesting any one to create the script or help. This is not good path to develop to your career. First you have learn then come to forum, then you have any problem, everybody ready to help to you share their knowledge.
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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.
But I wondered, if it is possible, if someone would be able to show me the syntax to include in my list (.txt file) to map xml tags to paragraph styles assigned in the list as it runs the script?
Steve

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");
function addtags(stylename, tag)
if(myDoc.paragraphStyles.item(stylename) != null)
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '.+';
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = stylename;
app.changeGrepPreferences.markupTag = tag;
myDoc.changeGrep();
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
Shonky

Mapping XML tags to paragraph styles that contain nested styles

I am importing XML into InDesign (CS5.5) and the tag mapping to styles is working fine until I get to a paragraph style that contains a nested style.
I have a sentence that starts with a number:
1the dog runs fast.
In InDesing properly styled looks like this:
1 The dog runs fast.
(tab)1(tab)The dog runs fast.
The number is styled with a character style (Number) and the whole sentence is styled with a paragraph style (Sentence). In order to get the tabs in between the number, I have a nested style within the paragraph style (Sentence). This triggers the tabs when it hits the character style (Number) like this:
Number up to 2 Tab Characters
In XML, it looks like this
<sentencetag><numbertag>1</numbertag>The dog runs fast.</sentencetag>
Sentencetag is mapped to Sentence paragrph style and Numbertag is mapped to Number character style, but the nested style for the tabs are not displaying. I just get this in IND.
1the dog runs fast.
Everything works beautifully until I hit the nested styles, which I do need to get to work somehow. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

It sounds like your tab characters are actually disappearing from content in the XML. Jeff was responding to the fact that they need to be there, and you state that you originally had them in your document, but they are not showing up once imported through the XML.
The tabs may be disappearing in the XML document due to the "TAB" character in your text editor not being a tab, or at least not properly-formed XML TAB equivalent, OR because you are not "importing whitespace elements" when you import your XML.
Importing whitespace elements can wreak havoc on other things in your XML structure and styled layout within the Indesign document, so I would put the XML quivalent of TAB everywhere a tab should be in your XML, and make sure NOT to import whitespace (when importing XML using "Merge Content", select not to import whitespace items from the import options).
I believe the XML friendly character code for a TAB character is "	" or "	" but have not tested this. Don't include quotes when adding the character code, just the ampersand, semicolon, and everything in-between.
Also, sounds like your tags are mapping ok for you, so your XML should look something like:
<sentencetag>	<numbertag>1</numbertag>	The dog runs fast</sentencetag>.
It should't matter where you put the TAB character equivalent in relation to your nested tag.

XML and object styles

Two things :
1. add aid:ostyle (for object styles)
2. add "map object styles to tags"

I second that!
Janine

Frame fitting options in object styles

We are producing multiple pages using tagged templates and importing xml - to populate both text and images.
Back in CS3 - our object styles using frame fitting worked perfectly. Since we have upgraded to CS5 and now CS6 - when xml is imported the frame fitting element of our object styles are no longer being honoured - when clicking on the object frame, it shows the style has been applied but with overrides - and it is adding random offsets to the frame fitting crop settings.
We are producing large numbers of pages through xml automation, therefore it's very time consuming to open every page and clear overrides/reset frame fitting on every affected graphic.
I've seen on other questions/forums that this may be a known bug - anyone have any up-to-date info on fixes or workarounds?
Thanks for your help :-)

Hello,
We have a free startup script that clears the overrides after a place action.
http://www.kerntiff.co.uk/free-stuff/afterplaceobjectreseter
P.

Map Paragraph and Character Styles

Hello all,
I am trying to import Word documents based on the Word Import Preset documents.
Here's an example smp document
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        <Preference name="import-footnotes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-endnotes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="import-track-changes" value="1" />
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        <Preference name="use-typographers-quotes" value="1" />
        <Preference name="convert-tables-to" value="0" />
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        <Preference name="bring-unused-styles" value="0" />
        <Preference name="para-style-clash-option" value="0" />
        <Preference name="char-style-clash-option" value="0" />
        <Preference name="use-style-mappings" value="1" />
        <Preference name="convert-BN-to-text" value="0" />
    </Import-Preferences>
</Sangam-Import-Preset>
Everything should be easy to set in the WordRTFImportPreference except for the mappings.
I tried using app.activeDocument. paraStyleMappings.add("Normal","Normal 2",   MapType.STYLE_MAPPING_RULE) after setting app.generalPreferences.mapStylesOnContentPlace = true
Doesn't work . I suspect the mappings are only good for XML placements and not Word ones, in which case I guess the way to do it would be to us changeText() on the styles. This is not a great solution as the changes would be done after placement unlike when using the UI before the placement.
Has anyone done this or got any ideas?
Regards,
Trevor

Paragraph Tools from SiliconPrairieSoftware.com will do it and it's cheap.
Note that you may not want to convert H1 to Heading1, but convert in the
opposite direction. A lot of expert Framers use the keyboard to choose
paragraph tags instead of the mouse-- it's faster-- and have set up short
names for paragraph formats to make that go even faster. (Someone who uses
the technique can explain it better than I.) If you have members of your
team who use this method, changing to the longer tagname may slow them down
and bring down a hail of grumbles.

applet tag vs Object tag

As per W3Schools HTML applet tag is not supported in HTML5. Need to use <Object> tag instead of <applet> tag.
For more details follow this link: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_applet.asp
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/obsolete.html#the-applet-element
Point 11.2 Non-conforming features
So, I go ahead and the change the code as below depicted.
Below code that is working with <APPLET> tag:
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style    = "position:absolute;border:0px;left:184;top:95;height:180;width:364;"
code     = "jtreeviewapplet.JTreeViewAppletMain.class"
name     = "TreeView"
id       = "TreeView"
hspace   = "0"
vspace   = "0"
align    = "top"
archive = "/Project/HTML/ABC/XYZ.jar,/Project/HTML/ABC/ABC.jar"
MAYSCRIPT>
+<PARAM NAME="onSelected" VALUE="onSelect_Handler">+
+<PARAM NAME="onFinishNormalize" VALUE="onFinishNormalize_Handler">+
+</Applet>+
Here is the snippet, whcih have been changed to <OBJECT> tag so as to support HTML5 in future:
+<OBJECT type=" application/x-java-applet"+
style    = "position:absolute;border:0px;left:184;top:95;height:180;width:364;"
name     = "TreeView"
id       = "TreeView"
hspace   = "0"
vspace   = "0"
align    = "top"
+>+
+<PARAM name="code" value=”jtreeviewapplet.JTreeViewAppletMain.class”>+
+<PARAM name="codebase" value="/Project/HTML/ABC/">+
+<PARAM name="archive" value=" XYZ.jar">+
+<PARAM name="archive" value=" ABC.jar">+
+<PARAM name="scriptable" value="true">+
+<PARAM NAME="onSelected" VALUE="onSelect_Handler">+
+<PARAM NAME="onFinishNormalize" VALUE="onFinishNormalize_Handler">+
+</OBJECT>+
After changing the *<applet>* tag to *<object>* tag , my applet itself is not loading and it gives class not found exception for jtreeviewapplet.JTreeViewAppletMain.class.
(Note: For both working and not working condition, I am using latest JDK 1.7 update 9 for compiling the code and in my system I am having latest JRE1.7 update 9 to run the applet code. I am using InternetExplorer 8 and InternetExplorer 9 browser)
Can anybody help me to find out where I am going wrong?
Edited by: 975931 on Dec 12, 2012 1:24 AM

You might want to stick to the documentation:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/index.html
and use the deployment toolkit.
PS: use \ tags when posting anything code related. That makes it readable and it keeps the forum from trying to interpret it.

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