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First Adobe InDesign Certification in Australia, now with over 5 years experience in InDesign in production and training, and certified up to InDesign CS3 v5.0.


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Adobe InDesign - Extending with XML Course Outline

Course Aim:
This course gives you an introduction to XML and how it can be used with InDesign to automate layout tasks and repurpose content into different formats. Originally created to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. Because XML is an open standard, it can be understood by a large number of applications. In this course you will learn how to import XML data from a database into an InDesign document and have it automatically formatted. You will also take the content of an InDesign page and export it to XML for use in a website or another publication.

Course Prerequisites:
The prerequisite for this course is that you have completed the InDesign Level 1 and Level 2 courses or equivalent knowledge. You must also be familiar with HTML or a similar markup language.

Course Duration: One day; 9:00am - 4:30pm

Classroom courses include:

* Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
* Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with exercises & tutorials
   (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
* Certificates
* After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email,
     to reinforce the learning)     helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
* Training guarantee
* FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on
      same version), see terms & conditions
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Course Topics:
During this course you will learn about:

Topic 1 Introduction to XML

Topic Objectives
What is XML?
What XML isn’t
Main differences between XML and HTML
XML Does not DO Anything
XML is Free and Extensible

XML is a complement to HTML
The future of XML
How is XML used?
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 2 Overview of XML Syntax Rules

Topic Objectives
What is Syntax?
All XML elements must have closing tags
XML tags are case sensitive
XML elements must be properly nested
XML documents must have a root element

In XML, white space is preserved
XML attribute values must be in quotes
Comments in XML
Writing and editing XML
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 3 XML Elements

Topic Objectives
XML Elements
XML elements have relationships
Elements have Content

Rules for naming Elements
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 4 XML Attributes

Topic Objectives
XML Attributes
Quote Styles
Use of Elements vs. Attributes
Three ways to present the same information

Should I avoid using attributes?
An example where attributes are useful
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 5 XML Validation

Topic Objectives
XML Attributes
Quote Styles
Use of Elements vs. Attributes
Three ways to present the same information

Should I avoid using attributes?
An example where attributes are useful
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 6 Planning an XML and InDesign workflow

Topic Objectives
Benefits of using XML in a publishing workflow
Ways to work with XML and InDesign
Layout automation

Repurposing content from InDesign
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 7 Preparing an InDesign document for an XML Workflow

Topic Objectives
The Structure pane
Structure pane icons
Using the Structure pane
Rearranging elements
Adding an element to the Structure
Creating attributes
Editing href attributes
Adding comments or processing instructions
Creating and loading XML tags
Exporting InDesign content to XML
Tagging documents for XML
Mapping styles to tags

Tagging frames
Tagging text inside a text frame
Retagging items
Tagging text in tables
Automatically tagging text frames and tables
Renaming a tag
Specifying default tags
Showing or hiding tagged frames or tag markers
Deleting tags or elements
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 8 Importing and validating XML files
in InDesign

Topic Objectives
Laying out imported XML
Appending vs merging XML
Importing XML for manual layout
Laying out XML manually
Mapping tags to styles
Automated layout using placeholder frames
Creating placeholder text
Importing repeating content into placeholder text

Creating a placeholder table
DTD files
Importing a DTD file
Viewing a DTD file in InDesign
Deleting a DTD file
Validating XML structure using a DTD
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 9 Exporting XML files from InDesign

Topic Objectives
Exporting an InDesign document to XML
Optimized image options
Saving tags only as XML9

Editing an XML file
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Topic 10 Advanced Topics

Topic Objectives
Formatting text using embedded style names
Table attributes

Entity processing
Anchored objects
Topic Summary
Topic Review

Appendix A: Index

Adobe InDesign - Extending with XML
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