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From: pjredman
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:32

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Greg,

Your quest to autoflow imported XML for catalog production seems to be a common one. As you've discovered InDesign does not currently support this very easily. Given the frequency with which this shows up in the forum I hope Adobe takes notice and provides a solution at some point.

Tables in XML import/export are minimally supported. There are no facilities for dimensions or styling. Spans are also not supported nor is XML tagging of table content. I'd like to see much more from Adobe in this area.

One remote possibility to explore for tables would be to reverse engineer the InDesign Interchange format (it's XML-based). My understanding is that you can represent an entire document in all its detail in this XML format. I don't believe it's publicly documented however.

Sorry I don't have much constructive to offer but thought this might help you save some wasted effort.

Thanks,
Phil Redman

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