script to add information from XML to InDesign page

skrip root folder is: win10: \Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Version 8.0\<locale>\Scripts\Scripts Panel

after developing a script in that folder it can be executed over script panel (Window->Utilities->Scripts). To make skript run faster turn off Enable Redraw from the Scripts panel menu.

language for developing scripts: win: JavaScript, VBScript macOS: JavaScript, AppleScript

in ExtendedScript Toolkit open object explorer to inspect the data structure of InDesign (Help -> Objectmodel F1)

Error messages over alert("<message>")

saveToXml

• set fileName (line: 2)
• set pageNumber (line: 3)

the textframes of the selected page will be written to an XML file, tag name refers to the layer name.