Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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INDESIGN CS3
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Tag content according to paragraph or character style
Paragraph styles and character styles you assign to text can be used as a means of tagging paragraphs and text for
XML. For example, a paragraph style called Caption can be associated with a tag called
FigureName
. Then, using the
Map Styles To Tags command, you can apply the
FigureName
tag to all text in your document assigned the Caption
paragraph style. You can map more than one style to the same tag.
Important: The Map Styles To Tags command tags content automatically, including paragraphs and characters that are
tagged already. For example, if a paragraph assigned the Context style has been tagged with the
Body
tag, but you then
associate the Context style with the
Expository
tag, the paragraph is retagged; it is stripped of the
Body
tag and given
the
Expository
tag instead. If you want to retain existing tags, apply tags manually (or use the Map Styles To Tags
command very carefully).
1
Choose Map Styles To Tags from the Tags panel menu.
2
For each style in your document, specify the tag that you want it to be mapped to.
Map Styles To Tags dialog box
3
To match style names to tag names, click Map By Name. Styles that are named identically to tag names are selected
in the dialog box. Map By Name is case-sensitive;
Head1
and
head1
, for example, are treated as different tags.
4
To use style mappings set up in another InDesign file, click Load and select the file.
5
Select or deselect Include options:
Master Page Items
Maps styles found on master page text frames to tags.
Pasteboard Items
Maps styles found on text frames on the pasteboard to tags. (Deselect this option to avoid tagging
content on the pasteboard.)
Empty Frames
Maps styles located on empty text frames to tags. (Deselect this option to avoid tagging empty
frames.)
6
Click OK.
The new XML tags are applied throughout your document to paragraph and character styles that you specified in
the Map Styles To Tags dialog box.
Note: You cannot tag images with the Map Styles To Tags command. You need to manually tag images if you want to
include them in an XML file.