Fastest way to find an element in an EDD

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Yves,

 

I would suggest that you take a look at FrameSLT from West Street Consulting. It allows you to search a structured FrameMaker document using XPath. It has many other features as well, including a scripting environment for modifying elements and attributes. Also, it can be "driven" from FrameScript, ExtendScript, and the FDK so you can quickly find element/attribute combinations in your scripts. I have used it in over 300 of my scripts. I highly recommend it. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.

 

Rick

 

Rick Quatro

Carmen Publishing Inc.

585-366-4017

rick at frameexpert.com

 

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:26 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Fastest way to find an element in an EDD

 

Hi EDD developers

Suppose you want to find an element with a specific name quickly in an EDD, what would be the fastest way? 

For example, I want to find an element named "keyword" in an EDD to specify its formatting rules. So, I need to find the following:

[Element][Tag] Element (Container):keyword[/Tag]


I do not want to search for text: "keyword", because "keyword" is a child element of many other elements, so I would find the text "keyword" in the [GeneralRule] element of many other elements.

I can search for an element tag: "Tag", but I cannot search for an element tag: "Tag" which has the text "keyword".

So, what do you do to find this element quickly?

 

Cheers


-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu 

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