var root = app.activeDocument.xmlElements.item("document"); 
// Namespace deklarieren 
var nspart = [] 
nspart[0] = "dbk"; 
nspart[1] = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; 
var ns = new Array(nspart) 
// XPath auswerten und in Variable speichern 
var footnotes = root.evaluateXPathExpression("//footnote");  
// über Fussnoten iterieren 
for (i = 0; i < footnotes.length; i++) { 
    var currentElement = footnotes[i]; 
    var fnText = currentElement.contents; 
    var fnCharRange = currentElement.parentStory.characters.itemByRange(currentElement.insertionPoints[1].index, currentElement.insertionPoints[-1].index); 
    var fNote = currentElement.insertionPoints[0].footnotes.add(); 
    fNote.insertionPoints[-1].contents = fnText; 
    fnCharRange.remove(); 
}