Book description
From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. 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. We’ll touch briefly on using InDesign to “skin” XML content, exporting as XHTML, InCopy, and the IDML package. The Advanced Topics section gives tips on using XSLT to manipulate XML in conjunction with InDesign.
Table of contents
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XML Publishing with Adobe InDesign
- About This Book and InDesign CS
- 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
- Mingling non-XML and XML content in a text flow
- Doing It Your Way: Using the Options for Your Own Process
- Understanding InDesign's XML Import Options
- Importing Images
- Tagging XML in InDesign
- Looking Forward: InDesign as an XML "Skin"
- 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 InDesign
- A Brief Note about InCopy and XML
- A Brief Note about IDML and ICML
- Summary
- Resources
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: XML Publishing with Adobe InDesign
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2010
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449397807
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