I.S. wrote:
I have a file that contains tagged XML content. I was asked to remove the XML from the document. Is there a way to delete/de-link the XML from a document?
If you open the Structure pane (press command/ctrl-option/alt-1) and select the XML elements, you can delete them. When you do this, InDesign gives you an option:
The default choice, Delete, actually removes the content from your document — the paragraphs or images go away! If you just want to remove the tags without messing up your document, choose Untag.
If this alert doesn’t appear (perhaps someone clicked Don’t Show Again), then you have another choice: Select the elements (you can select them all by opening the Root element, then clicking on the first element and shift-clicking on the last element) and choose Untag Element from the Structure panel menu (it’s a little menu in the upper-right corner of the Structure pane):
That should remove the tags, but leave all the good stuff in the document.
This article was last modified on December 20, 2021
This article was first published on September 14, 2010
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