Book description
Adobe InDesign's user documentation provides some examples of importing and formatting XML. But if you need to wrangle XML that comes from a database or website and make it look good inside an InDesign document, you'll want to dive deeper. (Note: while Adobe made significant changes to the underlying format of InDesign in CS4, the processes for consuming XML content remain similar to CS3.)
Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of content that can be reused in multiple publications.
In this Short Cut, we'll play with the contents of a college course catalog and see how we can use XML for course descriptions, tables, and other content. Underlying principles of XML structure, DTDs, and the InDesign namespace will help you develop your own XML processes. The Advanced Topics section gives tips on using XSLT to manipulate XML in InDesign.
Table of contents
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XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+
- About This Book and InDesign CS2/CS3
- A Brief Foray into Structured Content (a.k.a. XML)
- InDesign XML Publishing: College Catalog Case Study
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Importing XML
- Doing It Adobe's Way: The Placeholder Approach
- Doing It Your Way: Using the Options for Your Own Process
- Understanding InDesign's XML Import Options
- Importing Images
- Tagging XML in InDesign
- Exporting XML
- Validating XML in InDesign
- What InDesign Cannot Do (or Do Well) with XML
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Advanced Topics: Transforming XML with XSL
- An Aside Regarding Scripting InDesign and XML Rules-based Publishing
- XSLT for Wrangling XML; XML Scripting for Automating XML Publishing
- XSL: Extracting Elements from a Source XML File for a New Use
- XSL: Getting the Elements to Sort Themselves
- XSL: Getting Rid of Elements You Don't Want
- Creating Wrappers for Repeating Chunks
- Making a Table from Element Structures
- Upcasting Versus Downcasting
- Upcasting from HTML to XML for InDesign Import
- Downcasting to HTML
- Generate a Link with XSLT (Not Automated)
- Adding Useful Attributes to XML
- A Word about Using Find/Change for XML Markup in CS3
- Summary
- Resources
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2007
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596557737
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