Selecting overset anchored textframe

Hi all,
I'm having trouble with the following.
I'm trying to select an anchored textframe that is not visible in my indesign file due to overset of the parent textframe.
The text that is overset is no problem to find but my script cannot detect the anchored textframe unless i make the parenttextframe big enough so it is no longer overset.
Any ideas what i'm missing here?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5424894/POC.indd
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5424894/POC.jsx
var myDoc = app.open(File("POC.indd"));
var currentPage = myDoc.pages.firstItem();
try{
// loop over top-level frames in the document
for (var i=0; i< currentPage.textFrames.length; i++){
var myFrame = currentPage.textFrames.[i];
app.consoleout("myFrame.label : " + myFrame.label);
changeMultipleNode(myItem, myFrame);
} catch(err) {
app.consoleerr("Error '"+err.message+"' at line "+err.line);
result = "Error!!!!";
} finally {
app.consoleout("finished");
function changeMultipleNode(myXMLParent, myFrame) {
// loop over nested (anchored) frames
app.consoleout("Frame " + myFrame.label + "has " + myFrame.parentStory.textFrames.length + "innerframes");
for (var i=0; i< myFrame.parentStory.textFrames.length; i++){
var innerFrame = myFrame.parentStory.textFrames.[i];
app.consoleout("innerFrame.label : " + innerFrame.label);
changeMultipleNode(myItem, innerFrame);

Hi Gregor,
I have done something similar with Xml Rules. The method I used was placeIntoInlineFrame:
function processElement(){
this.name = "processElement";
this.xpath = "//root/myElement";
this.apply = function(myElement, myRuleProcessor){
var myTextframe = myElement.placeIntoInlineFrame([25,2.78])
myTextframe.fit(FitOptions.FRAME_TO_CONTENT);
myTextframe.anchoredObjectSettings.anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.ANCHORED;
myTextframe.anchoredObjectSettings.anchorPoint = AnchorPoint.BOTTOM_RIGHT_ANCHOR;
myTextframe.anchoredObjectSettings.horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.RIGHT_ALIGN;
myTextframe.anchoredObjectSettings.horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.TEXT_FRAME;
return false;
Hope this helps
Stefan
http://www.indesignscript.de

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