Reply To: XML Structure, Tags and Font Anomalies

Hello John,

First, I have not used XML in your environment. Nor have I used InCopy much at all being a single contractor. I do use XML a fair bit, though.

I don’t know from whence InCopy is obtaining the stories. Is it directly from the back-end repository?

If it were me investigating it, I would first begin with exporting a story out of ID that has been edited and inspect it in either a good text editor that can properly handle XML or an actual XML editor. If those tags (like the bold tags you mention) are being properly placed around the text, it is failing downstream. If the tags are mis-matched, incomplete or “moved” from their target, it would seem InCopy cannot handle editing XML.

Likely it will be that InCopy cannot handle either the two-way nature of how the XML is being used, or that the back-end is falling over the checked-in story, or that perhaps the tags themselves are being mis-matched by InCopy. Or…something else I cannot think of at the moment. It’s not something I do.

Mike