A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows

Chapter 11. Ajax and XSLT

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In this chapter you will learn how to use:

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Ajax and InDesign XML to create interactive Web pages

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XSL to style InDesign XML for the Web

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An XSLT to import XML in InDesign (and why)

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An XSLT to export XML from InDesign (and why)

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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 ...