Reply To: Insert DITA XML fragment into the DOM

[Derek Read]

OK, I've just programmatically inserted a table and I have no trouble calling getNodesByXPath inside the same macro and in a second macro. It tells me my table is there, it also doesn't matter if it is currently rendered as a table or not.

I'm testing with the current release of XMetaL Author Enterprise which is 8.0.1.041. I don't think we've worked much on this area of the product recently, but perhaps your specific release has some limitations.

Here are two of the simplest possible tests I can think of.

For a DITA document this one will make the document invalid and the table cannot even be rendered as one due to all the missing bits:
[code=test 1]// XMetaL Script Language JSCRIPT:
if(Selection.FindInsertLocation(“table”)) {
Selection.InsertElement(“table”);
var tables = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXPath(“//table”);
Application.Alert(“# of tables: ” + tables.length);
}
else {
Application.Alert(“Unable to insert a table element.”);
}[/code]

This one inserts an entire valid table from a string:
[code=test 2]// XMetaL Script Language JSCRIPT:
if(Selection.FindInsertLocation(“table”)) {
Selection.PasteStringWithInterpret('

');
var tables = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXPath(“//table”);
Application.Alert(“# of tables: ” + tables.length);
}
else {
Application.Alert(“Unable to insert a table element.”);
}[/code]

In both cases the Alert should say that there is at least one table after insertion (more if the document already contains some).

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