XML Element Order

Hi, we deployed an app that has a web service component in 10.1.2.2 oid install of AS.
in dev we get the output of a certain web service call as
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
- <SOAP-ENV:Body>
- <ns1:getUserOrgEntitiesIdNumsResponse xmlns:ns1="http://com/fmcna/core/security/api/helpers/ISecurityHelper.wsdl" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
- <return xmlns:ns2="http://com.fmcna.core.security.api.helpers/ISecurityHelper.xsd" xsi:type="ns2:com_fmcna_core_security_api_businessobjects_UserOrgEntitiesIdNums">
- <idNames xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns3:Array" ns3:arrayType="xsd:string[1]">
<item xsi:type="xsd:string">MACON</item>
</idNames>
- <idNums xmlns:ns4="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns4:Array" ns4:arrayType="xsd:string[1]">
<item xsi:type="xsd:string">1440</item>
</idNums>
<loginID xsi:type="xsd:string">0001440</loginID>
<numList xsi:type="xsd:int">1</numList>
</return>
</ns1:getUserOrgEntitiesIdNumsResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
in qa the same call gives us
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:getUserOrgEntitiesIdNumsResponse xmlns:ns1="http://com/fmcna/core/security/api/helpers/ISecurityHelper.wsdl" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<return xmlns:ns2="http://com.fmcna.core.security.api.helpers/ISecurityHelper.xsd" xsi:type="ns2:com_fmcna_core_security_api_businessobjects_UserOrgEntitiesIdNums">
<loginID xsi:type="xsd:string">0001440</loginID>
<numList xsi:type="xsd:int">0</numList>
<idNames xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns3:Array" ns3:arrayType="xsd:string[0]">
</idNames>
<idNums xmlns:ns4="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns4:Array" ns4:arrayType="xsd:string[0]">
</idNums>
</return>
</ns1:getUserOrgEntitiesIdNumsResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
the order of the elements in dev are
idNames
idNums
loginID
numList
in qa it is
loginID
numList
idNames
idNums
can anyone tell us why we would expect a behaviour like this...
thanks
ravi

Hallo,
I have same problem but all parameters seems ok...
<Table> is an invalid table element or appears in the wrong order.
<variant>
<Table xmlns:aid5="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0" xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" aid5:tablestyle="Art.-Table" aid:table="table" aid:trows="64" aid:tcols="7">
<cell aid5:cellstyle="Art.-Cell" aid:table="cell" aid:crows="1" aid:ccols="1" aid:ccolwidth="58">
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this causes a problem when i add an attribute (the intention of the above script is to add references) which is added to the parent element.
gregor

Remove xml element using JS[CS3]

Hi, I have an xml structure where i want to remove some paritcular element named "extlink".
I do have one script with me but it doesn't wipe out all specific xml element from structure.
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var foundtext = 0
Query_Remove (myDoc);
alert ("You have removed " + foundtext + " " +" Link !!")
exit (0);
function Query_Remove(elm)
try
for(var i=elm.xmlElements.length-1; i>=0; i--)
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    var Store_CitAttri = elm.xmlElements[i].xmlElements[0].xmlAttributes.item("c_style").value;
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     foundtext = foundtext + 1;
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catch (e){
Some time it skip the element from all figure captions and some time from body text and some time it works perfectly
Could any one figure it out why this script behaviour is not consistent as i am new to scripting and not getting any idea about this.
Thanks
Mac

Okay, after peering over your code and trying a few things out I see one immediate problem and one possible improvement.
The problem lies in this:
1. if condition is true, remove item
2. check recursively
The problem is .. if an item is removed, the following recursive check will always fail. However, the entire loop is wrapped into a try..catch, so InDesign will not alert you that it failed. Instead, it will continue with what's after the loop, exactly because the try..catch is around the entire loop!
Change the loop code to this
if((elm.xmlElements[i].markupTag.name == "http") && (elm.xmlElements[i].parent.markupTag.name == "extlink"))
    var Store_CitAttri = elm.xmlElements[i].xmlAttributes.item("c_style").value;
    if(Store_CitAttri == "URL")
      elm.xmlElements[i].remove();
       foundtext = foundtext + 1;
       continue;
Query_Remove(elm.xmlElements[i]);
so the recursive checking is skipped. You can also remove the entire try..catch block, as this may hide additional errors ...
The improvement is: as I started reading this thread from the top again, shouldn't you be removing the "extlink" items, rather than just the "http" ones inside?
If so, remove the parent of the found item (which is always the "extlink"):
      elm.xmlElements[i].parent.remove();
-- and, as this will break the loop (because you just removed the set of elements it was working in!), replace 'continue' with 'return'.
Hope this helps

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I have a number of carriage returns and tabs within an xml element. When I take that element I would like it to transform to html in which I am then displaying within a JEditorPane. However, when I do this it is one long string. I have tried the xml:space="preserve" within that element and this still is not working.
Here is part of the xml with the carriage return line feeds. The element that I am talking about is called pseudocode. You can see it is displayed correctly below.
Design Document XML : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><design-doc><title-page><title>Testing Document</title><class-prepared-for>Lloyd</class-prepared-for><authors>Ben Garbers</authors><date-created>September 23, 2004</date-created></title-page><introduction text="This is the introduction. This is the introduction."/><class-definitions><class-definition class-name="ClassOne" visibility="public" class-complexity="not complex"><global-variables><variable visibility="public" name="VariableOne" object="String" comments="This is a String."/><variable visibility="public" name="VariableTwo" object="Integer" comments="This is an Integer."/></global-variables><methods><method name="MethodOne" synopsis="This will do some things." purpose="public" visibility="public"><input-parms><variable visibility="null" name="firstName" object="String" comments="null"/></input-parms><output-parms><variable visibility="null" name="lastName" object="String" comments="null"/></output-parms><local-variables><variable visibility="null" name="age" object="int" comments="null"/></local-variables><pseudocode xml:space="preserve">/* Ensure that player name exist in the system*/
if (player =null)
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this.mPlayers ? this.mPlayers - player;</pseudocode>
However, when I do the transformation I get the following with the pseudocode:
/* Ensure that player name exist in the system*/if (player =null)     NullPlayerException;          if (NOT (isPlayerNameExist(player)))               throw PlayerNameNotExistException;          /* Ensure player name exist in the team already*/          i ? 1;          while (i <= length(mPlayers)) {               if (mPlayers[i].mPlayerName != playerName)                    throw PlayerNameNotExistInTeamException;}this.mPlayers ? this.mPlayers - player;
It looks like it adds some spaces but no carriage returns or line feeds.
My transformation code is the following:
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//          transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");
//          Properties properties = new Properties();
//          properties.setProperty("indent", "yes");
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I have been searching and trying to figure this out forever. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bottom line is that I want carriage returns and tabs to work when transferring from the xml to xsl.

I get the following line when adding the <pre> tags.
/* Ensure that player name exist in the system*/if (player =null)     NullPlayerException;          if (NOT (isPlayerNameExist(player)))               throw PlayerNameNotExistException;          /* Ensure player name exist in the team already*/          i ? 1;          while (i <= length(mPlayers)) {               if (mPlayers[i].mPlayerName != playerName)                    throw PlayerNameNotExistInTeamException;}this.mPlayers ? this.mPlayers - player;
On the screen this is shown on 1 line. It looks like the tabs are working correctly. However, the carriage return, line feeds do not seem to be working. The xml that is pushed into the transformation has the carriage returns and line feeds and is formatted correctly. There has to be something happening when the xsl takes the xml String. When I add <BR></BR> within the xml that doesn't seem to work either.
I am really sumpted. If you could help DrClap I would really be appreciated.

Missing XML Element when using asset from library

This is not really a scripting question but I seem to be unable to find any regular ID forum and it has something to do with a scripting workflow I established for a customer.
A script places an asset from a library onto a document and then (amongst other things) imports some XML file.
The asset in the library consists of a number of textframes and has the structure e.g.:
article
box
box
Now the customer needs new templates (that is assets in the library) and we cannot produce them anymore. It seems that as of CS 3 5.0.4 Adobe changed the behavior of the library. Dragging e.g. two box-tagged boxes with an article parent XML into the library leads to an asset without the article element. Can someone confirm this? And more important is there a reason to it? Or is there a way to configure the behavior?
I guess I could create a parent xml element by script after placing the element but then I would need to redo all existing libraries.
Thank you,
Ralf

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