Join Jim Maivald for an in-depth discussion in this video Introduction to XML technology, part of InDesign CS5: Dynamic Publishing Workflows in XML.
To get the most out of XML, you have to know a little bit about it first. XML came from the web. It's a web-based language. But today it's being used everywhere. It's still being used on the web, it's used in print, and it can even be used on your cell phone. XML is very closely related to HTML. If you're familiar with editing HTML, you already have a good set of skills for editing XML. The development on XML started in 1993, as a direct answer to the limitations people saw in HTML. HTML was developed to display text on the screen and it does a pretty good job of this.
But it doesn't know how to deal with data. So work was begun in 1993 to develop a new language called XML. It was finished by 1998 and adopted. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. The keyword here is extensible. Unlike HTML, which has almost 100 predefined tags, XML has very few predefined tags. The key part of the technology is that you write your own. Just like HTML, XML is plain text, which means you can edit it in any text editor, such as Notepad, TextEdit, BBEdit and even Dreamweaver.
If you use Microsoft Word, be sure that you save it as a plain text file. Whatever you do, don't use the native Word XML format. It's unusable in any of the XML workflows we are going to discuss here. XML is non-proprietary, which means no one owns it, there is no licensing, and best of all, it's free.
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7/6/2010- Understanding XML terminology
- Identifying XML elements, attributes, and comments
- Adding, moving, and deleting elements
- Tagging and styling
- Creating tables with XML
- Building frame and flow layouts
- Ordering with XSLT
- Using the Document Type Definition in an XML workflow
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 16s
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1. Introduction to XML
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XML terms and rules6m 23s
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Comparing XML with HTML2m 14s
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2. Creating XML
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XML creation basics3m 16s
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Creating XML in Microsoft Office13m 25s
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Creating XML in XML editors2m 37s
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3. Creating and Editing Project-Based XML
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XML editing basics5m 23s
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4. InDesign's XML Features
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5. The Structure Pane
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Revealing XML content1m 14s
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Untagging elements1m 12s
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Mapping tags to styles2m 29s
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Mapping styles to tags6m 1s
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Adding untagged items2m 31s
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Exporting XML4m 33s
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6. The Tags Panel
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Working with the Tags panel2m 26s
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7. Importing XML
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Importing XML into InDesign3m 16s
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Importing XML into tables4m 32s
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Creating tables with XML3m 29s
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8. Creating an XML Layout
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9. Using XSLT in an XML Workflow
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10. Document Type Definition (DTD)
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Overview of DTD technology3m 29s
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DTD terminology3m 51s
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Overview of DTD syntax3m 30s
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11. Product Sheet Project
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12. Books and Manuals Project
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Setting up your file for XML3m 18s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye42s
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