Creating an InDesign Booklet Using XML

Speed up your workflow when designing data-heavy documents (directories, catalogs, etc.) with InDesign and XML.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• What you'll be creating in this course

1. Understanding XML

• What is XML?
• Why XML?
• Rules of XML
• Where does XML come from?
• Transforming XML

2. Elements of XML in InDesign

• Getting familiar with the Tags panel
• Understanding the Structure pane
• Displaying tag markers

3. Setting Up the InDesign Document

• Documents that work best with XML
• Setting up the document
• Creating styles
• Primary text frame and Smart Text Reflow

4. Tagging Content

• Initial XML import into InDesign
• Pretagging content for XML import
• Mapping tags to styles
• Working with anchored objects

5. Bringing XML into InDesign

• XML Import Options
• Using Clone Repeating Text Elements
• Utilizing an XSLT
• Utilizing a DTD
• Omitting content

6. Fine-Tuning the Layout

• Taking advantage of Keep Options
• Applying master pages
• Adjusting hyphenation
• Creating a table of contents
• Saving a template
• Untagging content

Conclusion

• Next steps