Advice on Automating Retail Catalog Creation

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From: noob_for_life
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29

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I was asked to use InDesign's XML import capabilities to automate the population of spreads in a retail catalog (picture boxes, accompanying copy, etc). So, I am rapidly learning how to do this. All of the content (or, in the case of images, pointers to content) will reside in a database.

One question: Does anyone have advice on standards for the structure of the InDesign document or advice on where I could look for such standards?

Thanks much!

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