Adobe InDesign – Using XML in Publishing

Introduction to XML

• element, attribute
• DTD, XML schema
• XSLT transformation
• XML rules, Well-Formed document
• comparison of XML and HTML

Creating and editing an XML document

• XML creation in MS Office
• XML creation in Adobe Dreamweaver
• XML editors

XML tools in Adobe InDesign

• Structure panel
• Tags panel
• displaying tag tags
• highlighting tagged frames

Structure panel

• XML import
• identification of XML elements, attributes and comments
• creation and editing of new XML elements
• tagging elements
• mapping tags to styles
• mapping styles to tags
• tagging preset options
• XML export

Tags panel

• tagging, re-tagging and untagging text
• tagging and untagging graphic frames
• parent and child elements

XML import

• import XML into InDesign
• inclusion of elements in the layout
• import XML into tables
• creating tables with XML
• import CALS tables

Creating an XML layout

• XML-based layout strategy
• "Frame Layout" vs "Flow Layout"
• structure identification from imported XML
• creating a new Frame Layout
• creating a Frame Layout from XML
• Creating a Multipart Frame Layout
• creating a new Flow Layout
• creating a Flow Layout from XML
• Multipart Flow Layout creation

Using XSLT

• use XSLT to change XML during import
• use XSLT to change XML when exporting