Overview 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. Course Outline 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 essentials 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