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 11. Ajax and XSLT
In this chapter you will learn how to use:
<objective>Ajax and InDesign XML to create interactive Web pages
</objective> <objective>XSL to style InDesign XML for the Web
</objective> <objective>An XSLT to import XML in InDesign (and why)
</objective> <objective>An XSLT to export XML from InDesign (and why)
</objective> </feature>This chapter continues the theme from Chapter 10 concerning applications that can take advantage of the XML exported from InDesign. We take a quick look at two techniques that offer very powerful formatting and structural capabilities for your XML output, namely Ajax and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). The reason is simple: You’re busy ...
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