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• • July 25, 2019 at 12:04 am #1177687
    David Kenneth Espiritu

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    I hope someone can help us with our problem. We have an XML file of recipes (ingredients, instructions, etc) and we want each recipe to be on one page. We were able to do that except we were having problems with the ingredients and instructions. They should be in bullet form, as per our paragraph style, but it only applies the bullet on the first ingredient/instruction.

    Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/xUW1CXS

    The following are the XML import options that we have checked:
    – Clone repeating text elements
    – Only import elements that match existing structure
    – Do not import contents of whitespace-only elements
    – Delete elements, frames, and content that do not match imported XML

    We want each ingredient and instruction to be it’s own bullet point but we’re stuck. Any help would be appreciated. Attached below are the sample XML file and the InDesign file.

    Resources:
    XML: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eyfz2AlIqIhV5pE4no7hpKfrCGqYzKuX/view?usp=sharing
    InDesign file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y6c_7_GIjfnrS19k1TWHzkYOXMNfScoI/view?usp=sharing

  • July 26, 2019 at 4:47 am #14324386
    Chad Chelius

    Member

    Hi David,

    I think your problem stems from the fact that in your InDesign file, what you want to appear as several inline bullets, is actually one single paragraph. I’m assuming you’re doing this to save space? Which is fine, however bullets are applied at the paragraph level in InDesign and therefore you will only get one bullet per paragraph which is exactly what you have. At a glance I see that you have two choices:

    1. In your XML, actually insert a bullet character followed by a space in front of each ingredient. I don’t know the unicode value for the bullet off hand but it should be easy enough to find.

    2. Organize your ingredients in the InDesign file as individual paragraphs stacked on top of each other.

    I hope that helps!

  • July 26, 2019 at 5:26 pm #14324290
    David Kenneth Espiritu

    Member

    Hi Chad,

    Thanks for replying! I tried editing the XML file by inserting a bullet for every ingredient and instruction. Unfortunately, we’re still getting the same result.

    View post on imgur.com

    Manually organizing the ingredients and the instructions in the InDesign Story Editor fixes this but we have over 700 recipes in the original XML file to deal with so it would be great if it would be a one-off import.

    Thanks!

  • July 26, 2019 at 6:03 pm #14324289
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I would suggest doing some post-processing with find/change. For example, find all the bullets and replace with a carriage return.

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