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October 16, 2013 at 8:57 am #65827
David Blatner
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Hi Perry,
XML is really, really hard in InDesign and requires a very strict workflow where little will change. Often you need to do a lot of massage work to the XML (with something like Oxygen) before you import.

But I think a bigger problem is that you are not mapping styles to all your paragraphs. Or perhaps you are, but then applying additional formatting in InDesign. That is a problem in an XML workflow, just as it is if you want to link to a Word file. Changes you make in InDesign are likely to be lost. Map everything!

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