Reply To: XML as a deliverable from InDesign

Theoretically, if you keep your InDesign file clean enough, and have a decent enough conversion from IDML to your final XML, then you can export to IDML at any stage and make only a couple of minor tweaks to it before converting it to the publisher's XML. But yes, you do tend to end up with a bit of a versioning mess, as inevitably the strict requirements mean that you spot errors while working on the IDML file that had been overlooked up until now.

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