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immoreel,

I think what you're trying to do is pretty straightforward except for the XML part (of which I have no experience).

I have spent the past 7 or 8 years developing/modifying a Filemaker based editorial system and last year I rewrote all the page layout scripts from Quark to ID - it was surprisingly quick once I got a feel for ID scripting (thanks Shane:). I DON"T use XML - we do all the tagging with either Quark or ID tags which works great.

Stories are imported into ID as tagged text files and I have some pretty complex Applescripts which parse this single text file into Heading, Sub Heading, Caption and Body text - each going to their own text boxes. We also do pictures associated with stories.

I wrote a MySQL/PHP backend for web publishing these same stories. It would be pretty easy to write the PHP to generate the same tagged text file that I produce from FMP - in fact it's quite possible the next version of our system will be browser based instead of FMP.

I realise I haven't given you any specific solution, but I can assure you it can be done and it's just a matter of deciding what exactly you need and how you want to do it.

cheers

kim