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Topic: XML conditional formatting
Hi,
I'm working on a pricelist in XML, importing in InDesign, one of my challenges is this:
When a price (or other field) has changed since the last printing, highlight the price in red.
Is there a way I can use an xml attribute, or node, to tell InDesign to change a character style?
Thanks,
Bob
I've stumbled across something which is confusing me, Im' sure there's a very simple explanation but I'm just not seeing it.
For years I've used Quark and any time I wanted to create a shaped item I tended to base it on a simple rectangle and simpley add nodes as and where I needed them, then convert to corners or bezier curves to create the shape I wanted.
I figured I'd be able to do the same in Indesign but when I create a rectangle frame and use the direct selection tool or the pen tool, i only seem to be able to add nodes or move nodes on the frame's text wrap box not the actual frame itself…
I guess I'm missing something really simple because at the moment it seems like a very fiddly thing to do and I'm gradually finding that Indesign is pretty user-friendly throughout…
Any help much appreciated.
Has anyone noticed that the kerning pair trick for GREP Styles (described at link below) doesn't work in CS5/5.5? Or, has anyone gotten it to work? If so, how?
I have an xml file tagged with namespaces:
for example, ce:section, ce:parai just trying to collect the 'ce:floats' xml nodes by using the following code:
//Defining the Namespace in the array of arrays of 2 strings
Dim NmSpArr(,) As String = {{“sb”, “https://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/struct-bib/dtd”}, {“cl”, “https://xml.cengage-learning.com/cendoc-core”}, {“ce”, “https://www.elsevier.com/xml/common/dtd”}, {“aid”, “https://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/”}, {“aid5”, “https://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/”}, {“xmlns:xsi”, “https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”}, {“xmlns:mml”, “https://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML”}, {“xmlns:xlink”, “https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”}}//Trying to collect the 'ce:floats'
Dim obj As InDesign.Objects = IndDoc.XMLElements(1).EvaluateXPathExpression(“//ce:floats”, NmSpArr)ID CS4
Vb.netAbove code always returning 0 as count. It seems there is problem with the xml namespaces definition.
It is working for the xml which doesn't have namespaces. For example, book; author; price.
When it comes to namespaces only it is not working. For example, ce:book; ce:author; ce:price
Any help?
Topic: Urgent help
I have the following XML schema:
<courses>
<course><number/><name/><category/></course>
</courses>My goal is to display the XML as pages in InDesign. This is fairly simple, no problem. The issue is that I need category to be on the side of the page as vertical text.
I created two place holders. One for the side category, and one for the main placeholder which displays course number and name. I tagged my template and made sure the structure is correct.
Now when I go to duplicate the page spread (so the other courses can be displayed as pages as well)….it moves the Category node in the structure to the FIRST course node. So if I duplicate the 1st page…the 2nd page's category node is moved into the 1st pages course node.
Why is this happening?
I have an XML document consisting of the following:
<root>
<pages>
<page>
<title>test</title>
</page>
<page>
<title>test2</title>
</page>
….
</pages>
</root>I want to import this into a new Indesign document and have each page node printed in a new page in indesign. How do I do this? I tried creating a new document and importing the XML, which creates the tags and structure. However, when I drag and drop the pages tag from the Structure, it puts all of them on a single page?
It would require you to sort by the contact/department field in your spreadsheet, then move the department “one level up” around all of the contact groups with that same department field.
I have no idea if that's even possible.
Here is my idea instead
Let InDesign's XSLT parser do the hard work. If you import your original XML and apply this XSLT on importing, it will create a “dep_group” around a list of contacts for that department. The first element inside the dep_group is your original “department”, and this line is removed from the actual contact information.XSLT:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”https://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>
<xsl:output method=”xml” version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ indent=”yes”/><xsl:key name=”all_deps” match=”department” use=”.” />
<xsl:template match=”/”>
<xsl:element name=”contactlist”><xsl:apply-templates /></xsl:element>
</xsl:template><xsl:template match=”contactlist”>
<xsl:for-each select=”contact[department[generate-id() = generate-id(key('all_deps', .)[1])]]”>
<xsl:variable name=”cur_dep” select=”department” />
<xsl:element name=”dep_group”>
<xsl:element name=”department”><xsl:value-of select=”department” /></xsl:element>
<xsl:apply-templates select=”../contact[department=$cur_dep]” />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template><xsl:template match=”department”></xsl:template>
<xsl:template match=”@*|node()”>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select=”@*|node()” />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>
(Warning: It seems some of the straight quotes are translated into 'curly' ones. Sorry 'bout that –you'll gonna have to weed them out one by one…)
