Reply To: Using XML to automatically create category headers at the top of each page

Well, my rule is “if there’s any way to do it without touching XML, then do that.” There are exceptions, but if you can do it with data merge, I’d strongly suggest that. One problem with data merge is that you cannot have a field that contains more than a single paragraph. I can’t tell from this example if you need that.

Is the challenge of changing the categories a matter of changing the text? Or changing the color? It might be easier to flow the whole thing and then do a quick find/change to find all “Category 2” and assign a paragraph style with a blue background, for example.