XML publishing with Adobe InDesign

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 1449397808
ISBN: 9781449397807
ISBN: 144939857X
ISBN: 9781449398576
ISBN: 144939793X
ISBN: 9781449397937
ISBN: 1449397239
ISBN: 9781449397234
Physical Description: 1 online resource (105, [6] pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : O'Reilly, 2010.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 6 at end).

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InDesign CS5: XML Structure option for exporting XHTMLAdvanced 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.