Article:		Adobe's InDesign and XML
Subject:		Those optionally varying graphics...
Date:		2004-12-29 09:46:05
From:		MattLembo
Response to: Large documents
I'm a total rookie when it comes to XML but am quickly understanding its power. In your business card example you mention the ability to include a different graphic with each employee. Can you expand on this? I imagine there's a way to get an XML file to refer to an image (jpg? pdf? other?) which would then be embedded into a preformatted box in the .indd -- buy what does the XML code look like? Simple unix style (../images/graph1.jpg)? Thank you very much, by the way, for this thorough and easy to follow introduction to XML. -Matt

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• Those optionally varying graphics...
  2006-06-30 02:48:12 phillhw [Reply]
  
  Indesign XML works very well with dynamically loading images.
  I am using Indsign 2.0 and the following works fine.
  In Indesign:
  Design the layout with a rectangle frame (the one with a cross on it), right click, define the contents as graphic and give it a tag name ie Image1.

  
  In XML file:
  Define the tag for Image1 with a href attribute:
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
  <Root>
  <Tag1>My New Product</Tag1>
  <Tag2>Buy this and you never need anything else again</Tag2>
  <Tag3>This Product gives you the following benifites</Tag3>
  <image1 href="file:///C:/images/1380.jpg" />
  </Root>