Adobe InDesign CS5 - Manual (Page 601)

595 USING INDESIGN
XML
Last updated 11/16/2011
• Applied tags to items on the pages of your document.
• Adjusted the hierarchy of tagged elements in the Structure pane, if needed.
You can export all or a portion of the XML content in your document. Only content that is tagged can be exported.
Important: If you are exporting a document that contains tables, you must tag the tables or InDesign will not export them
as part of the XML.
1 If you want to export only a portion of the document, select the element in the Structure pane where you want
exporting to begin.
2 Choose File > Export.
3 For Save As Type (Windows) or Format (Mac OS), choose XML.
4 Specify a name and location for the XML file, and then click Save.
5 In the General tab of the Export XML dialog box, choose any of the following:
Include DTD Declaration Exports the reference to the DTD along with the XML file. This option is only available if
there is a DOCTYPE element in the Structure pane.
View XML Using Opens the exported file in a browser, XML editing application, or text editor. Choose the browser or
application from the list.
Export From Selected Element Starts exporting from the element you selected in the Structure pane. This option is
only available if you selected an element before choosing File > Export.
Export Untagged Tables As CALS XML Exports untagged tables in CALS XML format. To be exported, the table must
be in a tagged frame, and the table must not be tagged.
Remap Break, Whitespace, And Special Characters Exports break, whitespace, and special characters as decimal
character entities rather than straight characters.
Apply XSLT Applies a stylesheet to define the transformation of the exported XML to, for example, a modified XML
tree or HTML. Select Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS) to select an XSLT from the file system. The default
setting, Use Stylesheet From XML, uses an XSLT transformation instruction if one is referenced in the XML that is
applied on export.
6 Choose an encoding type from the Encoding menu.
7 To specify export options for images, click the Images tab, and then select one or more of the following:
Original Images Places a copy of the original image files in an Images subfolder.
Optimized Original Images Optimizes and compresses the original image files and places copies of the files in an
Images sub-folder.
Optimized Formatted Images Optimizes the original image files that contain applied transformation (such as rotation
or scaling) and places them in an Images sub-folder. For example, if the document contains two images, one cropped
and one not, only the cropped image is optimized and copied to the Images sub-folder.
8 If you selected Optimized Original Images or Optimized Formatted Images in the previous step, choose options for
the optimizing the images.
9 Click Export.
Note: Not all special characters are supported in XML (such as the Automatic Page Number character). InDesign warns
you if it cannot include a character in the exported XML file. This warning also appears if you didn’t tag a table.