XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+
Copyright © 2007 O'Reilly Media, Inc.
August 2, 2007
Abstract
InDesign CS2's user documentation tantalizes with a small set of XML demos, while CS3 offers more, but has a fairly steep learning curve. What in the (real) world can you do with XML, once you understood how it works in InDesign CS3/CS2?
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.
We'll start with the assumption that you already know quite a bit about InDesign typographic styles and layout features because you want to use InDesign to do something with XML. In particular, you will need to understand the role that paragraph and character styles play in making InDesign documents that are consistently the same in their typographical presentation throughout a given document, or a set of documents using the same InDesign template. ...
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