XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+

If you are investigating the XML capabilities of Adobe InDesign (CS4, CS3 or CS2), you'll find a case study, and information on import, export and authoring XML in InDesign, plus ideas for using XSLT in conjunction with XML publishing with InDesign. (Note: CS4 release did not sgnificantly change the XML content features of InDesign, although the underlying file format changed from INX to IDML.)

Read our new white paper, Leveraging the Value of Translated XML Content
by Dorothy Hoskins
[pdf, 195 kb] to understand the extraordinary savings that can be achieved with translated XML reuse and translation memory applications.

June, 2009 -- The technology du jour is DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) for creating topic-based XML technical documents, which everyone is rushing to say they support or have applications to handle. Microsoft's partnering with Quark(!) and others and Adobe has enhanced FrameMaker to make it even more DITA-capable.

All the major player's latest applications suites are based on XML and their file formats are written in XML. Book and magazine publishers, unable to profit from print on paper, are looking for the web+print offering, but will Google beat them to the next version of global publishing? The government is expanding its requirements to receive content in XML for business filings, patents, safety and health, military training and documentation. XML is everywhere, but it's not naked to the world, it's subsumed into myriad applications. Do we still need XSLT? do we still need dedicated XML editor applications? Some new technology is poised to leapfrog everything we currently use for creating and deploying XML, we just don't know it yet.

Meanwhile, if you want to get in touch about XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, InDesign, DITA, or structured FrameMaker, you can still contact us.