Pierre, Your a genius! I totally missed that when reading the XML code. It just goes to show that a good XML viewer is worthwhile then trying to read it in a text editor.
I'll have to experiment with PHP's SimpleXML functions and see what I can do with that. Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: scribus-bounces at kirsche.altmuehlnet.de [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Marchand Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:32 AM To: scribus at kirsche.altmuehlnet.de Subject: Re: [Scribus] Comment about object tag names and xml file format Vous avez ?crit?: > Hi All, > > I wanted to comment on and get feedback from any developers lurking on > object tag names and the associated xml elements in the 1.3.5 file > format. > > I'm interested in developing a web-based tool that can manipulate > Scribus docs and their XML like file structure. I would be programming > it in PHP which has useful utilities for handling XML objects and can > make OO objects out of XML elements. Basically the application would > make use of predefined Scribus "Spec Ads" that can be customized via a > web form that changes the text of tagged text elements in Scribus docs. > Currently you can give objects a name in the properties box, but it > does not appear to actually label or "id" the associated element > within the file. For example, I create a text element and assign it > the name of "tagline" in the properties box, I would expect that when > I save the document and look at it's source code, the associated itext > element would have an attribute named "id" with a value of "tagline". > This would then allow me to in PHP to do a getElementById("tagline") > and then have an object with the property "CH" which would contain the > text that I could then manipulate. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Tim Boyden Hi Tim, There is the "ANNAME" attribute of the parent "PAGEOBJECT" element of the "ITEXT" element (I somehow like/hate XML ;-) ) representing the TexfFrame which would be enough to get reach the acrual text content, no? -- Pierre Marchand _______________________________________________ Scribus mailing list Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
