Preserve conditional text in XML with FM 7.2 files

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  I'm German, but I try to express my problem in English as I can. Not always easy with different menu names. Hope you get what I mean! :-)

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  For each condition, you need another condition for the paragraph sign that comes immediately after the condition. Not after each paragraph of a condition, but at the end of each consecutive numbers of the paragraphs of the same condition.

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  I know what's wrong, but I have no idea how to change.

  Could someone help me?

  Thanks in advance!

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  1 move the actual paragraph style (and not just its name) to findGrepPreferences (your variable, currentStyle is a string, although this can work, it is better [especially for paragraph in the groups styles] to adopt the paragraph style real itself).

  2. Ditto for the appliedCondition: give changeGrepPreferences the condition itself, not just its name.

  3. it seems that changeGrepPreferences.appliedConditions expects a range of disorders, then give him a table even if it has only one member.

  Ariel

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