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  COURSE DETAILS - INDESIGN - About | Intro | Adv | XML | Scripting
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Add XML1b to my courses InDesign and XML (2 days)
Public Courses: £550  Click on one of the dates below to book a course
Click this icon to book online 2-3 Aug 07 20-21 Sep 07 25-26 Oct 07 6-7 Dec 07    
10-11 Jan 08 21-22 Feb 08 3-4 Apr 08 1-2 May 08 5-6 Jun 08 31 Jul-1 Aug 08
  18-19 Sep 08 23-24 Oct 08 27-28 Nov 08      
This course is aimed at those already familiar with both basic and advanced InDesign features. It introduces XML and explains how it can be integrated into InDesign publishing workflows.
Fundamentals
  About markup languages
What is XML?
XML and SGML
How mark-up languages work
Representation of document structure
Multi-platform publishing
Modelling content with XML
XML basics
  XML elements
The root element
Creating XML tags
Parent and child elements
Entities, PCData, and CData
Element attributes
White space
Adding comments
Well-formed XML documents
DTDs
  Overview of XML validation
XML parsers
Creating DTDs
Internal and external DTDs
  Element declaration
Attribute declaration
Declaring internal entities
Declaring external entities
XML schemas
  XML Schema
Need for Schemas
Comparison of DTD and Schema
Schema elements and attributes
Namespaces
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
XML Schema Examples
InDesign XML basics
  Summary of XML features
Typical workflows
Using the Tags window
Creating and editing tags
Applying tags to text frames
Applying tags to image frames
Applying tags to inline frames
Importing tags
Show Tag Markers
XML and InDesign tables
XML and images
Importing XML
  Importing XML files
Tagging preset options
Mapping tags to style
Manually formating XML
Embedding style names in XML files
Creating repeating elements
Using DTDs
 

Industry-standard DTDs
Importing DTDs
Validating documents with DTDs

Exporting XML
  Tagging items for XML export
Selecting elements for export
Setting export options
 
 


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