XML and InDesign by Hoskins, Dorothy J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

XML and InDesign A Note Regarding Supplemental Files Preface

About This Book and InDesign CS Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Contributor

Acknowledgments

1. A Brief Foray into Structured Content (a.k.a. XML) 2. InDesign XML Publishing: College Catalog Case Study

Data-Like Content Example: The Course Description XML

Data Exported as XML Modeling the Structure for the Import XML

Topical Content: The Handbook XML

Evaluating the Handbook Text for Structure Modeling the Structure as a Set of Topics Iteration and Refinement Net Results: Vast Improvements in Understanding and Speed

3. Importing XML

Doing It Adobe’s Way: The Placeholder Approach

Modeling the XML You Want

Getting some structure into InDesign Create placeholders for XML elements Creating test XML

Importing XML into Placeholders

Adding style to the XML elements Mapping styles to tags Importing the “real” XML file

An Aside: The Scary “Map Styles to Tags” Dialog Message

Mingling Non-XML and XML Content in a Text Flow

Exporting XHTML When XML is in Your InDesign File

Doing It Your Way: Using the Options for Your Own Process

Import XML Using Only Merge—No Other Import Settings

Using Append

Linking to External XML Files

External updates on Open and using the Links palette

Creating Text Flows for the Imported XML The Importance of “Document Order” for Imported XML

Rearranging XML elements in the structure pane Fixing up structure in the Story Editor

Understanding InDesign’s XML Import Options

Using “Clone Repeating Text Elements” Importing Only Elements That Match Structure Avoiding Overwriting Text Labels in the Placeholder Elements Deleting Nonmatching Structure, Text, and Layout Components

Importing Images

Inline Image Imports

4. Tagging XML in InDesign

The Case for Tagging Content: Why You Need XML Tagging for Import Tagging for Iterative XML Development

Working Without an Initial DTD

5. Looking Forward: InDesign as an XML “Skin” 6. Exporting XML

Marking Up (Tagging) Existing Content for XML Export The Special Case of InDesign Tables (Namespaced XML)

Examining the Table

Tagging Images as XML in InDesign

Image Options in the Export XML Dialog

7. Exporting ePub Content (InDesign CS5.5 and CS6)

Export in XML Order Compared with Page Layout and Article Pane Order Alternate Layouts and XML Are Not Compatible Features

Untested: Liquid Layout and InDesign Files Containing XML Structure

8. Validating XML in InDesign

Why Validate? How to Validate XML in InDesign

Loading a DTD and Getting the Correct Root Element

Authoring with a DTD

Dealing with Validation Problems Occurrence and Sequences of Elements Validating Outside of InDesign Duplicating Structure to Build XML Cleaning Up Imported XML Content

Fast and Light Credo: Develop Now, Validate Later

Iterating the Information Structure and DTD

9. What InDesign Cannot Do (or Do Well) with XML

The 1:1 Import Conundrum Bad Characters Inscrutable Errors, Messages, and Crashes InDesign Is Not an XML Authoring Tool

10. Advanced Topics: Transforming XML with XSL

XSLT for Wrangling XML versus 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 General Formula for Adding Attributes Generating an id Attribute for a div Use of the lang Attribute for Translations Creating an Image href Attribute

Paths to images

A Word about Using Find/Change for XML Markup in InDesign

11. Content Model Depth Issues and Their Impact on Round-Tripping XML

The Challenge of Mapping Deep DTDs to Shallow InDesign Structures The Challenge of Mapping Shallow Structures to Deep DTD Structures Use of Semantic ids and Style Names (Expert-Level Development)

12. Brief Notes

A Brief Note about InCopy and XML A Brief Note about IDML and ICML

Automating InDesign: The Power of IDML and ICML Programming

An ICML developer’s test case

Summary

A. Resources

InDesign Resources XML Resources XSLT Resources

About the Author Colophon Copyright

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