December 2007
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
7h 38m
English
book
A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows
by James J. Maivald, Cathy Palmer
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Chapter 1. What Is XML?
If you want to use XML with InDesign, you really can’t get around at least a basic discussion of what XML is and where it came from. We promised the book would not feature endless lines of code and such, and we make things here as fun and painless as possible—but yes, you will see a bit of code in this chapter.
XML Basics for Designers
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. A markup language is a technique for marking, or tagging, content—text, graphics, or other elements—with codes to identify it for some secondary purpose or application. The tag is a piece of text contained within left and right angle brackets (< >). The markup is completed by placing, or opening, a tag at the beginning of the content and then closing ...
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