Creating an InDesign Booklet Using XML

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Free Online Course: Creating an InDesign Booklet Using XML provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Creating an InDesign Booklet Using XML is taught by Chad Chelius.

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

Syllabus
  • 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