Replace tab markers with xml

Hey,
I'm just trying to get an xml import to add content to tags.
I have the structure worked out and tags are importing but I want to import the tag once for each named tag. In other words, if I have a tag called 'Doc-title' I would like all text tagged with 'Doc-title' to be replaced in the import without having to repeat the instruction for every one.
Can I do this? How is it done?
Appreciate any ideas!

So, they're not tabs. Check the Paragraph settings for one of them -- I bet you find a First Line Indent of other than 0.
If Word behaved itself, and the document was imported nicely, you might find all indented paragraphs have the same paragraph style applied to them. If so, just change the value for the First Line Indent in that paragraph style, and you're done.
If not, you have something to do to-night! Unfortunately, although InDesign
i can
search for a specific indent value and replace it with another, it's impossibly hard to get the correct value to search for. That's due to rounding in the input boxes -- a value you see as "12.5pt" might be internally stored as "12.4999pt", so if you search for "12.5" it doesn't find anything. No point fiddling about; create a new paragraph style (this time with a good indent value), and apply it manually to the ones you want changed.
Incidentally, you can't specify measurements in InDesign in em units. For a 1 em indent I generally choose either the text point size, or the leading -- this tends to look better if the leading is way big. If neither looks okay, I make up something that
i does.

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Hello.
I'm wondering if anyone knows about an existing script that does a find/replace by list like the script "FindChangeByList.jsx" that comes with every InDesign installation.
This consists of tow parts, the script itself with the functionality and a simple textfile where you have simple one-liners capable of find/replace with regex.
the Textfile:
//FindChangeList.txt
//A support file for the InDesign CS4 JavaScript FindChangeByList.jsx
//This data file is tab-delimited, with carriage returns separating records.
//The format of each record in the file is:
//findType<tab>findProperties<tab>changeProperties<tab>findChangeOptions<tab>description
//Where:
//<tab> is a tab character
//findType is "text", "grep", or "glyph" (this sets the type of find/change operation to use).
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//changeProperties is a properties record (as text) of the change preferences.
//findChangeOptions is a properties record (as text) of the find/change options.
//description is a description of the find/change operation
//Very simple example:
//text {findWhat:"--"} {changeTo:"^_"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double dashes and replace with an em dash.
//More complex example:
//text {findWhat:"^9^9.^9^9"} {appliedCharacterStyle:"price"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find $10.00 to $99.99 and apply the character style "price".
//All InDesign search metacharacters are allowed in the "findWhat" and "changeTo" properties for findTextPreferences and changeTextPreferences.
//If you enter backslashes in the findWhat property of the findGrepPreferences object, they must be "escaped"
//as shown in the example below:
//{findWhat:"\\s+"}
grep {findWhat:" +"} {changeTo:" "} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double spaces and replace with single spaces.
grep {findWhat:"\r "} {changeTo:"\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all returns followed by a space And replace with single returns.
grep {findWhat:" \r"} {changeTo:"\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all returns followed by a space and replace with single returns.
grep {findWhat:"\t\t+"} {changeTo:"\t"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double tab characters and replace with single tab characters.
grep {findWhat:"\r\t"} {changeTo:"\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all returns followed by a tab character and replace with single returns.
grep {findWhat:"\t\r"} {changeTo:"\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all returns followed by a tab character and replace with single returns.
grep {findWhat:"\r\r+"} {changeTo:"\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double returns and replace with single returns.
text {findWhat:" - "} {changeTo:"^="} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all space-dash-space and replace with an en dash.
text {findWhat:"--"} {changeTo:"^_"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all dash-dash and replace with an em dash.
The script:
//FindChangeByList.jsx
//An InDesign CS5.5 JavaScript
@@@BUILDINFO@@@ "FindChangeByList.jsx" 3.0.0 15 December 2009
//Loads a series of tab-delimited strings from a text file, then performs a series
//of find/change operations based on the strings read from the file.
//The data file is tab-delimited, with carriage returns separating records.
//The format of each record in the file is:
//findType<tab>findProperties<tab>changeProperties<tab>findChangeOptions<tab>description
//Where:
//<tab> is a tab character
//findType is "text", "grep", or "glyph" (this sets the type of find/change operation to use).
//findProperties is a properties record (as text) of the find preferences.
//changeProperties is a properties record (as text) of the change preferences.
//findChangeOptions is a properties record (as text) of the find/change options.
//description is a description of the find/change operation
//Very simple example:
//text {findWhat:"--"} {changeTo:"^_"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double dashes and replace with an em dash.
//More complex example:
//text {findWhat:"^9^9.^9^9"} {appliedCharacterStyle:"price"} {include footnotes:true, include master pages:true, include hidden layers:true, whole word:false} Find $10.00 to $99.99 and apply the character style "price".
//All InDesign search metacharacters are allowed in the "findWhat" and "changeTo" properties for findTextPreferences and changeTextPreferences.
//If you enter backslashes in the findWhat property of the findGrepPreferences object, they must be "escaped"
//as shown in the example below:
//{findWhat:"\\s+"}
//For more on InDesign scripting, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/index.html
//or visit the InDesign Scripting User to User forum at http://www.adobeforums.com
main();
function main(){
 var myObject;
 //Make certain that user interaction (display of dialogs, etc.) is turned on.
 app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
 if(app.documents.length > 0){
 if(app.selection.length > 0){
 switch(app.selection[0].constructor.name){
 case "InsertionPoint":
 case "Character":
 case "Word":
 case "TextStyleRange":
 case "Line":
 case "Paragraph":
 case "TextColumn":
 case "Text":
 case "Cell":
 case "Column":
 case "Row":
 case "Table":
 myDisplayDialog();
 break;
 default:
 //Something was selected, but it wasn't a text object, so search the document.
 myFindChangeByList(app.documents.item(0));
 else{
 //Nothing was selected, so simply search the document.
 myFindChangeByList(app.documents.item(0));
 else{
 alert("No documents are open. Please open a document and try again.");
function myDisplayDialog(){
 var myObject;
 var myDialog = app.dialogs.add({name:"FindChangeByList"});
 with(myDialog.dialogColumns.add()){
 with(dialogRows.add()){
 with(dialogColumns.add()){
 staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Search Range:"});
 var myRangeButtons = radiobuttonGroups.add();
 with(myRangeButtons){
 radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"Document", checkedState:true});
 radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"Selected Story"});
 if(app.selection[0].contents != ""){
 radiobuttonControls.add({staticLabel:"Selection", checkedState:true});
 var myResult = myDialog.show();
 if(myResult == true){
 switch(myRangeButtons.selectedButton){
 case 0:
 myObject = app.documents.item(0);
 break;
 case 1:
 myObject = app.selection[0].parentStory;
 break;
 case 2:
 myObject = app.selection[0];
 break;
 myDialog.destroy();
 myFindChangeByList(myObject);
 else{
 myDialog.destroy();
function myFindChangeByList(myObject){
 var myScriptFileName, myFindChangeFile, myFindChangeFileName, myScriptFile, myResult;
 var myFindChangeArray, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindLimit, myStory;
 var myStartCharacter, myEndCharacter;
 var myFindChangeFile = myFindFile("/FindChangeSupport/FindChangeList.txt")
 if(myFindChangeFile != null){
 myFindChangeFile = File(myFindChangeFile);
 var myResult = myFindChangeFile.open("r", undefined, undefined);
 if(myResult == true){
 //Loop through the find/change operations.
 do{
 myLine = myFindChangeFile.readln();
 //Ignore comment lines and blank lines.
 if((myLine.substring(0,4)=="text")||(myLine.substring(0,4)=="grep")|| (myLine.substring(0,5)=="glyph")){
 myFindChangeArray = myLine.split("\t");
 //The first field in the line is the findType string.
 myFindType = myFindChangeArray[0];
 //The second field in the line is the FindPreferences string.
 myFindPreferences = myFindChangeArray[1];
 //The second field in the line is the ChangePreferences string.
 myChangePreferences = myFindChangeArray[2];
 //The fourth field is the range--used only by text find/change.
 myFindChangeOptions = myFindChangeArray[3];
 switch(myFindType){
 case "text":
 myFindText(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions);
 break;
 case "grep":
 myFindGrep(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions);
 break;
 case "glyph":
 myFindGlyph(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions);
 break;
 } while(myFindChangeFile.eof == false);
 myFindChangeFile.close();
function myFindText(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions){
 //Reset the find/change preferences before each search.
 app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 var myString = "app.findTextPreferences.properties = "+ myFindPreferences + ";";
 myString += "app.changeTextPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
 myString += "app.findChangeTextOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
 app.doScript(myString, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
 myFoundItems = myObject.changeText();
 //Reset the find/change preferences after each search.
 app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myFindGrep(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions){
 //Reset the find/change grep preferences before each search.
 app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 var myString = "app.findGrepPreferences.properties = "+ myFindPreferences + ";";
 myString += "app.changeGrepPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
 myString += "app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
 app.doScript(myString, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
 var myFoundItems = myObject.changeGrep();
 //Reset the find/change grep preferences after each search.
 app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myFindGlyph(myObject, myFindPreferences, myChangePreferences, myFindChangeOptions){
 //Reset the find/change glyph preferences before each search.
 app.changeGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 var myString = "app.findGlyphPreferences.properties = "+ myFindPreferences + ";";
 myString += "app.changeGlyphPreferences.properties = " + myChangePreferences + ";";
 myString += "app.findChangeGlyphOptions.properties = " + myFindChangeOptions + ";";
 app.doScript(myString, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
 var myFoundItems = myObject.changeGlyph();
 //Reset the find/change glyph preferences after each search.
 app.changeGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
 app.findGlyphPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
function myFindFile(myFilePath){
 var myScriptFile = myGetScriptPath();
 var myScriptFile = File(myScriptFile);
 var myScriptFolder = myScriptFile.path;
 myFilePath = myScriptFolder + myFilePath;
 if(File(myFilePath).exists == false){
 //Display a dialog.
 myFilePath = File.openDialog("Choose the file containing your find/change list");
 return myFilePath;
function myGetScriptPath(){
 try{
 myFile = app.activeScript;
 catch(myError){
 myFile = myError.fileName;
 return myFile;
This is a very useful and easy to maintain script which even people who cant write scripts (but know how to use regex) can do complex search replace mass replacements.
Would love to find something like this for FrameMaker 12 (as i can't write scripts myself).
regards
daniel

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At key points, I made system disk image backups of the SSD to the old HDD and tried restoring from a backup after the failed repartitioning experiment. But Windows Backup and Restore won’t restore a system image after booting from the destination drive’s recovery partition nor from the source drive’s recovery partition. Since my backup was on the HDD in the Ultradrive bay, I couldn’t boot from the Rescue & Recovery CD. The workaround was to make a bootable System Repair disk on a 512 MB USB key. Windows Backup and Restore then failed with another meaningless error, “The parameter is incorrect. Code: 0x80070057.” Apparently you have to remove the USB key right before starting the system restore operation but that yielded the error, "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found." I’m not sure if that’s a symptom of removing the USB key or yet another problem with Windows Backup and Restore. Maybe it can’t restore to resized partitions? Windows Backup and Restore failed and burned hours of my time.
Fix the annoying request on bootup?
After you install Windows, all its updates, and Samsung Magician, you can use Magician to adjust system settings for SSD performance. Then you’ll find that Magician needs permission to “make changes to this computer” on every boot. Samsung tech support explained that you can then remove Magician from the startup list via msconfig.
Optimizations
Recomputing the “Windows Experience Index” might make the OS recognize the boot drive as an SSD and disable defrag for it. This didn’t work for me, so be sure to unschedule defrag. Also use msconfig to remove Digital Line Detect from the startup list and turn on “No GUI boot” (no Windows splash screen). Also use power plans Advanced Settings to never turn off the “hard disk.”
ThinkPad
Thumbs up. Easy to replace the HDD with an SSD and move the HDD into an Ultradrive caddy. Sturdy. Easy to work on. Well documented. Hardware that I didn't want to replace.
Microsoft Windows 7
Thumbs down. Buggy, fragile, over complicated, inadequate error messages, painstaking to install, difficult and time consuming to administer, poorly documented, accumulates gunk over time that causes problems, failed backup software, even a fresh install has scary event log errors.
Lenovo forums & support pages
Very helpful. Sometimes it's good to use Use Google to search them e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alenovo.com+"over+provision"
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Fine hardware. Some confusions around the Magician software. Great phone tech support. Web support doesn’t work.
References and more info
How To Geek, Lifehacker, Lifehacker, SSD Review, Newegg, Newegg, Anandtech, Storage Review.

I may have confused you: Lenovo provides two tools, 1) one makes DVDs that restore the original out-of-the-box factory image of the entire disk (i.e. System partition, C: + Q: partitions) and 2) Backup and Restore, which is the Lenovo user backup tool that does conventional full disk backups, i.e. with all user customizations, added programs and files. Since my system-generation-to-SSD saga hadn't created the the Q: partition correctly, my only alternative was to create a full up-t-date disk backup with the second Backup and Restore tool that include all the Windows + Lenovo updates, but didn't include extra programs and my user files. This fitted on 5 DVDs, which I will use if ever I reinstall the entire operating system.
Once you get above 100-150 GB of backup volume (I'm at 450 GB right now), the Lenovo Backup and Restore is very slow, so I use the much quicker Windows built-in Backup and Restore program to backup incrementally a system image and all files.

Need help with XML transformation

I am not sure this is the right place for this. But i will try it here. I am very troubled with my XSLT. Trying to transform a text Coupon which has the following html for it. So,
_1. INPUT is:_
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

This coupon is for a good guy whose first name is :




Sadd




also whose <var>full_name</var> is Sadd Hossain




He is a software engineer for
S&H

</body>
</html>
*2. output needed is:*
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<POSMESSAGE>
<TextMSG >
This coupon is for a good guy whose first name is :
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG >
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="center">
<emph>SADD</emph>
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG >
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="right" >
also whose full_name is Sadd Hossain
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG>
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="left" >
He is a software engineer
for S&H
</TextMSG>
</POSMESSAGE>
*3. XSLT for this*
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="body">
<POSMESSAGE>
<xsl:for-each select="p">
<TextMSG>

<xsl:attribute name="align"><xsl:value-of select="@align"/></xsl:attribute>

<xsl:attribute name="font"><xsl:value-of select="@size"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</TextMSG>
<xsl:for-each select="b">
<emph>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</emph>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</POSMESSAGE>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
*4: the above xslt generating this output*
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<POSMESSAGE><TextMSG align="" font="">
This coupon is for a good guy whose first name is :
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="" font="">
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="center" font="">
SADD
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="center" font="">
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="right" font="">
also whose full_name is Sadd Hossain
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="left" font="">
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="left" font="">
He is a software engineer
for S&H
</
*5: Need help with this. what should my xslt look like to get the desired output???????????????*
any help or direction will be very much appreciated. Thank you_

I have below suggestions:
1. Please use code option given in message editor toolbar for posting any formatted content like XML, Java code snippet etc.
2. replace & in your source XML with _& a m p ;_ (Without spaces, I have put spaces to make it visible here).
3. I have modified your XSLT according output XML you have given. I am not sure what you want to do with some elements like , , <var> etc. change below XSLT as you require for these elements.
Modified XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
 <xsl:output method="xml"/>
 <xsl:template match="body">
 <POSMESSAGE>
 <xsl:for-each select="p">
 <TextMSG>
 <xsl:if test=". != ''">
 <xsl:for-each select="@align">
 <xsl:attribute name="align">
 <xsl:value-of select="."></xsl:value-of>
 </xsl:attribute>
 </xsl:for-each>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:if>
 </TextMSG>
 </xsl:for-each>
 </POSMESSAGE>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
OUTPUT:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<POSMESSAGE>
 <TextMSG>This coupon is for a good guy whose first name is :</TextMSG>
 <TextMSG/>
 <TextMSG align="center">Sadd</TextMSG>
 <TextMSG/>
 <TextMSG align="right">alsowhose full_name is Sadd Hossain</TextMSG>
 <TextMSG/>
 <TextMSG align="left">He is a softwareengineer forS&H</TextMSG>
</POSMESSAGE>

How to replace the '&' character with '&' in xi

Hi,
i need to replace the '&' character with ' &'.but i f i am converting it is displaying as '&' because internally '&' = '&'.
beacuse of this it is not converting.
is there any possiblity to change the standard conversion in xi.

Graphical mapping does not support special character like & , <,> to be mapped.
You can encode & as and in UTF-8 only.
if you want the special character to be used, Opt XSLT mapping with ISO-8859-1 encoding
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="*" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
How to Work with Character Encodings in Process Integration (NW7.0)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/502991a2-45d9-2910-d99f-8aba5d79fb42

Need help with XML response to refresh document with context and prompts

I've been working with the Restful api for a few weeks now and have been able to figure out most of what I need to automate testing of our reports. However, one task that I have not been able to figure out is how to refresh a document that contains both a context and two prompts for dates.
Here is what I have tried, and what the API responds with.
1) I queried the API for this document's parameters using the following call after logging in -
headers = {:accept=>'application/xml', :content_type=>'application/xml', :x_sap_logontoken=>@token}
url = "http://our.url.net:6405/biprws/raylight/v1/documents/12345/parameters"
RestClient.get(url, headers)
The response from the API is:
<parameters>
 <parameter dpId="DP0" type="context" optional="false">
 <id>0</id>
 <technicalName>cQuery 1</technicalName>
 <name>Select a context</name>
 <answer type="Text" constrained="true">
 <info cardinality="Single">
 <lov partial="false">
 <values>
 <value id="CTX_1">LOAN</value>
 <value id="CTX_9">LOAN_APPLICATION</value>
 </values>
 </lov>
 <values>
 <value id="CTX_1">LOAN</value>
 <value id="CTX_9">LOAN_APPLICATION</value>
 </values>
 <previous>
 <value id="CTX_9">LOAN_APPLICATION</value>
 </previous>
 </info>
 <values>
 <value id="CTX_9">LOAN_APPLICATION</value>
 </values>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
</parameters>
2) This tells me I need to supply a context, so I then replace my RestClient.get call with a RestClient.put call with the following payload:
<parameters>
 <parameter>
 <id>0</id>
 <answer>
 <values>
 <value id=\"CTX_9\"/>
 </values>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
</parameters>
3) This satisfies the context portion of the refresh. The API replies with the following response, telling me I need to answer two prompts -
<parameters>
 <parameter dpId=\"DP0\" type=\"prompt\" optional=\"false\">
 <id>1</id>
 <technicalName>psEnter value(s) for Start Date of Application Received Date</technicalName>
 <name>Enter value(s) for Start Date of Application Received Date</name>
 <answer type=\"DateTime\" constrained=\"false\">\
 <info cardinality=\"Single\"/>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
 <parameter dpId=\"DP0\" type=\"prompt\" optional=\"false\">
 <id>2</id>
 <technicalName>psEnter value for End Date of Application Received Date</technicalName>
 <name>Enter value for End Date of Application Received Date</name>\
 <answer type=\"DateTime\" constrained=\"false\">
 <info cardinality=\"Single\"/>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
</parameters>
4) Here is where I am having problems. I have tried all kinds of permutations of the below payload/response body. All I ever get from the API is a 400 - BadResponse error.
<parameters>
 <parameter>
 <id>0</id>
 <answer>
 <values>
 <value id=\"CTX_9\"/>
 </values>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
</parameters>
<parameters>
 <parameter type=\"prompt\">
 <id > 1 </ id>
 <answer type=\"DateTime\">
 <values>
 <value>2012-06-11T09:50:54.000-04:00</value>
 </values>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
 <parameter type=\"prompt\">
 <id > 2 </ id>
 <answer type=\"DateTime\">
 <values>
 <value>2014-07-11T09:50:54.967-04:00</value>
 </values>
 </answer>
 </parameter>
</parameters>
I am not very good with XML and the terminology around it, and I haven't received much training around using the Restful API other than the SDK documentation. I have a feeling there is something very basic that Im missing here. What is the correct XML needed in the response body to properly refresh the document?

If you are more confortable with JSON, Raylight supports it as well.
Best regards,
Anthony

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