XML Starter Help - Adobe Indesign

Here is one relevant thread <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bc22c6a>. See especially the link to the "real world" xml chapter, if that wasn't included in your "and more" above.

If you can't game the repeat to work automatically, you should also be able to paste 249 copies of your template and, as long as they're wrapped to match your overall XML document structure (and in one continuous story), be good to go. But that shouldn't really be necessary.

Thanks a lot Andrew. I had actually seen the "real world" example but that didn't do it for me either - a bit too high-level and not explicit enough. I'm going to follow everything through again and see if I can do better.

My primary challenge is getting the flow to work by adding new pages... probably basic InDesign flow stuff that I haven't grasped yet.

Got it...
The issue was more that the XML elements I was using were not customized for InDesign. I added the "Root" and "Story" elements as the first two in the hierarchy and now all works ok. It wasn't entirely clear that these were REQUIRED elements in the documents.
Now my XML document looks like:

<Story>
<product>...</product>
<product>...</product>
[etc. etc.]
</Story>


The Text Frame in my document is tagged as "product".

The only thing I'm still struggling with is having to manually link the overflow content onto new pages - is there no automated way to do this? But a big step forward...

in my post above the Root element above the Story was removed when posted.

with out the < > delimiters:

Root
Story
product.../product
product.../product
/Story
/Root

Chris,

If you want to send me a copy of your XML I'd be happy to look it over and make some suggestions. I've done some pretty hairy XML import projects before and might have some advice to share.

-Nate Delage
ndelage@scriptedpublishing.com
www.scriptedpublishing.com