Reply To: Map tags to styles destroys existing formatting

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!