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A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows
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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
December 2007
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
7h 38m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 7. Targeted XML Import

<feature><title>Chapter Objectives</title>

In this chapter you will learn how to:

<objective>

Import XML into specific elements

</objective>
<objective>

Import XML to update data in place

</objective>
<objective>

Import XML to delete empty elements

</objective>
<objective>

Edit XML to create proper element structure

</objective>
<objective>

Combine XML files for complex workflows

</objective>
</feature>

It occurred to us that the number of readers producing world atlases (Chapter 6) any time soon is small, so we looked around for other more common projects to demonstrate. The candidate that came to mind immediately, ideal for an XML workflow, is the traditional product catalog or pricelist.

In this Chapter you will learn everything ...

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