I’m very happy to report that I have just received a copy of A Designer’s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML, by James Maivald with Cathy Palmer. (The subtitle, in case you needed one, is “Harness the power of XML to automate your print and web workflows.”) Given how many people email us asking questions about XML, this new book will be the answer to many people’s dreams.
Now, even a 300-page book such as this can’t discuss every issue related to XML, but it’s far more on the subject than anything else on the market (though Olav Kvern and I did include a small chapter on XML in our book Real World InDesign). More importantly, this book will go a long, long way to making XML accessible to designers and production folks around the world.
One of the best things about this book is that it not only gives you all the required conceptual underpinnings, but it also provides real step-by-step lessons. Plus, you can download its lesson files from Peachpit’s Web site to follow along! Wow.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on December 16, 2007
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