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Re: Digest Number 1067

peterngold Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:05 pm

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Re: Digest Number 1067

Is anyone using InDesign and XML on a regular basis, planning to, or
avoiding it for known reasons?

I`m interested in hearing viewpoints, opinions, war stories, successes,
etc.

I`m on digest. If you prefer, please reply privately to
peter@..., and I`ll compile and post your responses to the
list.

Thanks,

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ed.nixon@... Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:10 pm

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Re: Digest Number 1067

Peter Gold wrote:
> Is anyone using InDesign and XML on a regular basis, planning to, or
> avoiding it for known reasons?
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> I`m interested in hearing viewpoints, opinions, war stories, successes,
> etc.
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> I`m on digest. If you prefer, please reply privately to
> peter@..., and I`ll compile and post your responses to the
> list.
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Please don`t reply privately to this query; I`m interested in the
responses to this question too.

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firstsigbn Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:45 pm

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Re: Digest Number 1067

Well, if you can wait a couple of weeks, I`ll have some information to
share. I`m putting together a Docbook-based single source system here
and part of the requirements are to be able to "push" document modules
to InDesign. I`m also going to set up XML filters in Macromedia
Authorware for the same purpose.

Cheers,

Bill Lawrence

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markwbarratt Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:54 pm

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Re: Digest Number 1067

Peter Gold wrote:

> Is anyone using InDesign and XML on a regular basis, planning to, or
> avoiding it for known reasons?
>
> I`m interested in hearing viewpoints, opinions, war stories, successes,
> etc.

I`ve done some work on XML > InDesign. It does depend strongly on what
you want to do, as some import facilities are poor - in particular,
tabular data is basically unsupported unless you are doing a price list
or similar extremely regular layout. For my purposes this makes InDesign
essentially unusable for accepting XML.

However, InDesign has much better support for its native tag language
and I`ve been able to get the job done when XML fails by going XML >
XSLT > InDesign Tags > InDesign.

Haven`t had to get much deeper than straight page assembly, so haven`t
looked at treatment of variables or resolving ID/IDREFs etc.

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