Collapsing tags containging specific nodes

[russurquhart1]

Me again,

With the code you gave me yesterday:

var nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath(“//*[@filter='filter5']”);
var nodecount = nodelist.length;
Application.Alert(“Fixing ” + nodecount + ” nodes…”);
for (i=0; i nodelist.item(0).setAttribute(“filter”, “”);
}

Can i collapse the element tag of the specific node at this point, or do i have to somehow convert that to a selection and then call CollapsedContainerTags?

thanks,

Russ

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[Derek Read]

Yes, you will need to convert to a selection and then set CollapsedContainerTags = true

One way (perhaps the best way) to do this would be to:
1. Create a Range object at the start of the script: var rng = ActiveDocument.Range;
2. Inside the for loop move rng to the node in question (before you remove the attribute): rng = nodelist.item(0).SelectContainerContents();
3. Then (also inside the for loop call): rng.CollapsedContainerTags = true;

Because this might cause a bunch of flickering as things get redrawn all over the place (this will be more noticeable on slower machines or larger docs) I would suppress any screen formatting updates until everything is done. Something like this:

[code]ActiveDocument.FormattingUpdating = false;
var nodelist = ActiveDocument.getNodesByXpath(“//*[@filter='filter5']”);
var nodecount = nodelist.length;
var rng = ActiveDocument.Range;
Application.Alert(“Fixing ” + nodecount + ” nodes…”);
for (i=0; i rng.SelectNodeContents(nodelist.item(0));
rng.CollapsedContainerTags = true;
nodelist.item(0).setAttribute(“filter”, “”);
}
ActiveDocument.FormattingUpdating = true;[/code]

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[russurquhart1]

Thanks for that!

(As i wanted to just collapse the nodes, and in this case not change their attribiute value, the code as it was only changed the first node. Changing the node selected to i, did the trick!)

Thanks again for your help!

Russ

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