XML Elements Handling in Incopy

Hi Experts,
I'm trying to capture particular type of xml elements and process with that element's content. It's easy in Indesign. But In Incopy, If i use glue code functions, it's throwing error due to unavailability of 'xmlRuleProcessor' property in incopy. Is there any way to achieve this? Is there any specified file like gluecode.jsx to support and handle XML Structure in Incopy?
Thanks & Regards,
Vel.

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<pre style="
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[2006/12/12 09:17:36]
Updated variable "signOn_Output"
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2694069
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<CompanyId>
208133
</CompanyId>
<SecurityToken>
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</FirstName>
<LastName>
Rao
</LastName>
</User>
</WebMethodsProcessResponse>
</part>
</signOn_Output>
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[2006/12/12 09:17:36]
Updated variable "tririga"
- <tririga>
- <TririgaProcessResponse xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/WebMethods">
<Result xmlns="">
Success
</Result>
- <User xmlns="">
<Id>
2694069
</Id>
<CompanyId>
208133
</CompanyId>
<SecurityToken>
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</SecurityToken>
<FirstName>
Jagan
</FirstName>
<LastName>
Rao
</LastName>
</User>
</TririgaProcessResponse>
</tririga>
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[2006/12/12 09:17:36]
Updated variable "Variable_2"
- <Variable_2>
- <part xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" name="payload">
- <TririgaProcessResponse xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/WebMethods">
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Success
</Result>
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<Id>
2694069
</Id>
<CompanyId>
208133
</CompanyId>
<SecurityToken>
1165936654605
</SecurityToken>
<FirstName>
Jagan
</FirstName>
<LastName>
Rao
</LastName>
</User>
</TririgaProcessResponse>
</part>
</Variable_2>
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[2006/12/12 09:17:36]
Error in evaluate <from> expression at line "130". The result is empty for the XPath expression : "/client:TririgaProcessResponse/client:User/client:LastName".
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLElement@1c8768e
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[2006/12/12 09:17:36]
"{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/}selectionFailure" has been thrown.
- <selectionFailure xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/">
- <part name="summary">
<summary>
empty variable/expression result.
xpath variable/expression expression "/client:TririgaProcessResponse/client:User/client:LastName" is empty at line 130, when attempting reading/copying it.
Please make sure the variable/expression result "/client:TririgaProcessResponse/client:User/client:LastName" is not empty.
</summary>
</part>
</selectionFailure>
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How to find out the page number of an xml element

Hi everybody, sorry for my very bad english (french guy! logical). I hope you see what I'm looking for.
I'm scripting (javascript) an exporting script of every articles from a multi-pages indesign script.
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