Tagging pages for XML

Question

Hi Chaps,
I am probably going mad, but I have not found any way to tag individual pages for xml export.
What I am looking for is something akin to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<root>
     <page>
          <text>MAIN TEXT</text>
     </page
     <page>
          <text>MAIN TEXT</text>
     </page
</root>
however the default export seems to give me
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<root>
     <text>MAIN TEXT</text>
      <text>MAIN TEXT</text>
</root>
which isn't the same thing at all.
Any help would be greatly apprieciated.
Daniel

Answer 1

It just seemed odd that you could import an XML file in indesign with <page> tags set up to declare seperate pages, but couldn't automatically do the reverse.
I don't think that's an option ... You can tag anything you want, and they come in like that into your document -- but ID will not recognize, and apply, tags named "page" (or any other tag; you'd have to specify an tag-to-style mapping for that).
FWIW, the reverse is actually a breeze, with a little help of a Javascript:
//DESCRIPTION:Tag pages
// A Jongware Script, 16-Aug-2010
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var xmlRoot = walkXml ("story");
var theTextAtHand = xmlRoot.texts[0];
for (f=theTextAtHand.parentTextFrames.length-1; f>=0; f--)
xmlRoot.xmlElements.add ("page", theTextAtHand.parentTextFrames[f].texts[0]);
function walkXml (findName, startat)
if (startat == null)
  startat = app.activeDocument;
for (var i=0; i<startat.xmlElements.length; i++)
  if (startat.xmlElements[i].markupTag.name == findName)
   return startat.xmlElements[i];
var found_it = null;
for (var i=0; i<startat.xmlElements.length; i++)
  found_it = walkXml (findName, startat.xmlElements[i]);
  if (found_it != null)
   return found_it;
return null;