InDesign CS5 Bible- P18: InDesign is a powerful tool that serves as the standard program for professional layout and design. The latest version boasts a variety of updates and enhancements. Packed with real-world examples and written by industry expert Galen Gruman, this in-depth resource clearly explains how InDesign CS5 allows for better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more user control than any other layout program. | Chapter 36 Working with XML Exporting XML Files When the InDesign document has the proper elements properly tagged to the document s content you re ready to export it to an XML file for use by a Web site s content management system or other XML database. Choose File C Export or press E or Ctrl E to open the Export dialog box. In this dialog box give the XML file a name in the Save As field InDesign automatically adds the file name extension .xml select a folder in which to place the file and most important choose XML from the Format popup menu on the Mac or Save as Type popup menu in Windows . Then click Save. The Export XML dialog box appears. It opens with the General pane. This pane is simple Include DTD Declaration Select this check box to include the DTD information in the exported file. Otherwise the XML database needs to import the DTD file separately. View XML Using Select this check box and select a Web browser or Web-supporting application in the adjacent popup menu to preview the XML file in that browser or program. Export from Selected Element If an element is selected in the Structure pane the Export from Selected Element check box is available if it s selected it exports the XML file only from that element on. Export Untagged Tables as CALS XML To convert InDesign tables not tagged with XML attributes to the CALS XML format select this check box. Remap Break Whitespace and Special Characters To convert special characters to their XML codes select this check box. Apply XSLT If this check box is selected InDesign applies the XSLT style sheet either from the XML file or from a separate file you specify which by using the popup menu to its right. Encoding Use this popup menu to choose the text encoding mechanism a way of representing international characters across different computer systems. Your content engineer or Webmaster will tell you whether to select UTF-8 UTF-16 or Shift-JIS. In the Graphics pane you tell InDesign how to handle the output of any
