Import XML structure

Hello,
I'm looking for instruction, step by step how I can import xml file.
I want to use with this xml structure to my RFC to XML scenario
Regards
Elad

hi Elad,
step by step how to import xml/xsd file
1. Go to Integration Repository>your Name space>>Interface Objects.
2.Interface Objects-->> External Definitions
3. Right click on it >>new>> ok -->>give it a name.
4.Edit external definition-->>CATEGORY: XSD
5.select file from your local Drive eg C:/
6.Choose with F4 help.
7. Now you can see message,WSDL,Import doc,external ref. in simultaneous Tabs
Regards,
Mandeep Virk
*reward if helpful info*

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with
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'I save that XML.
In ID: Import XML... selecting "Merge Content", "only import elements that match existing structure" & "import text elements into tables if tags match"
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Is this by design?
When I select "Append Content" I get a (new) table with the formatting (column widths) as specified in the updated aid:ccolwidth and of course, the updated content. When merging content are you giving up all rights to updating formatting at the same time?
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<Table xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" aid:table="table" aid:trows="8" aid:tcols="5">
The above is simply from a quick export of a table in ID. But note that the definitions, the declaration, of what the element parts are follows the namespace portion.
Mike

Import XML to InDesign

New to XML in InDesign, I have a few question, so if you only can answer one or two, please do so.
1. Is there a way to get InDesign to display in the structure the content of the tag, rather than the tag name over and over again?
2. Can you make a search in the Structure, XML file in InDesign? I know once you have it on the page you can show where it is in the structure, was looking for the same function vice versa.
3. We get the data from the App developers, and the data is very messy, lots of spaces, returns etc, which seems legit for the digital version, but in InDesign we have to clean all this up, so when we reimport the data every time with updated content, we have to go through and apply all those manual changes again. What wold be the proper way to tackle this?
4. When we update the XML file later, do we have to update the whole file, or can you specify which section you want to update. Because we do a lot of Typography after inporting, i assume we have to redo this once the XML gets updated.
5. What happens with all the duplicats? Every time you copy and paste a content group, new XML entries, also when you duplicate a page.
Thanks, Dimitri

1. Turn on "Show Text Snippets" to display the beginning of text.
2. Double click an xml-element in the structure pane or right-click and "Go to item"
3. You can clean up the text in the layout with grep find-replace queries (there are scripts that allow make a series of queries in one go). And by script it's possible to clean up xml-elements themselves – e.g. remove returns from certain elements
4. As far as I know, you can only merge or append xml-file. You may want to import xml-file as external link and edit it in another app, but I think you’ll lose formatting in InDesign after updating.
5. Xml-elements are duplicated as well.

Import Project Structure (Business Blueprint) into Solution Manager

Hi,
we are searching for a way to import a project or process structure from external formats like MS Visio, BPML, XML into Solman SOLAR01.
I think there should be a possibility via XML.
Anybody knows how to import xml-files into SolMan Blueprint and which structure the file has ?
Thanks for any suggestions !
Steven

Hi Satish,
It would create a project that can be see in SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN, SOLAR01, SOLAR02 just like any other project.
The BPR is something entirely different. I think you meant Business Process Structure. Correct?
regards,
Jason

Importing xml is not working

Hello i am trying to import an xml file into a document but its not allowing the import.
Let me clarify a bit, i have allready imported the same xml in about 50-60 different documents without any problems, but now i have a document that does not allow me to import the xml.
After looking a bit deeper i found the following:
You can see that the parameter "Only import elements that match existing structure" is checked. When i uncheck this param, the xml is imported correctly.
Now i tried to simulate is via scripting but with no success.
Here's what i tried:
InDesign.app.xmlImportPreferences.importToSelected = true;
InDesign.app.xmlImportPreferences.importStyle = XMLImportStyles.MERGE_IMPORT;
InDesign.app.xmlImportPreferences.ignoreUnmatchedIncoming = false;

And the document import xml settings are the same as in the screenshot? Also, you are using extendscript, my example is actionscript and i've noticed quite some differneces between the 2 in the past (although they use the same API).
Edit: There is also the fact that i didnt test your code ( ignorent as i am) and didnt see that your example actually DOES work. Thank you very much for your help,
On a sidenote: can you explain me why it works if you call:
InDesign.app.activeDocument.xmlImportPreferences
but not when you call:
InDesign.app.xmlImportPreferences
My thought was that when you call it on the document, then it's only for the current document, but when you call it on the application, then it is for all documents that get processed by that application.
Is this wrong? Or is it the way it is meant to be?

"Cells too small to split" importing XML

My hubris in presuming to advise other people about importing XML last week has been punished, it seems.
I am trying to populate a table with data from an XML document. The XML has the following structure:
order
basket
   quantity.../quantity
   title.../title
   price.../price
   quantity.../quantity
   title.../title
   price.../price
/basket
/order
(Actually there's more to it, but that will give you the idea.) I've created a placeholder table with a single row, tagged the table 'basket' and tagged each cell with one of the element names. The containing frame is tagged 'order'.
If there is only a single item (quantity, title, price triple) in the basket, it works a treat. If there's more than one, though, I get the bewildering error message "Cells too small to split". They aren't: I can split the row horizontally by hand, and then import two items.
I'm using CS3, but the same thing happened when I tried in the CS4 demo. I did Google for the error message and found one other person asking for help with a similar problem but he didn't get any replies.
Has anyone seen this message or got any clues to offer?

I have the exact same message here. What in my case the issue seems to be is that I have a linked XML file that I update. This works great until I add a new table to the original XML file. Then my update gives the "Cells too small to split" error, and it will not update.
Creating a new document and importing the XML from scratch does work. For us not the ideal way to work, since I now mannualy have to do a "override styles" on each table again.
I have reset my table-styles to a style with an embedded body-cellstyle with 0 inset. I would have no clue as to how to set a minumum row-height and width in a cell or table style though.
Would be great if anyone has found a solution in the meantime.

XML gateway with multiple XML structures??

Hi,
I have a requirement to import data using XML gateway with different XML structures. Third party system sometimes will not provide certain tags itself if there is no data for the tag like contacts in below sample xmls. In that case we need to ignore those tags (CONTACTS in below sample). As per my understanding, we must have tag in XML though it may not have any value.
We have 2 XMLs
XML1 for supplier with contacts
<SUPPLIER>
<NAMES>
<NAME1>XYZ </NAME1>
<NAME2>ABC</NAME2>
</NAMES>
<SITE>
<SITE1>XYZ </SITE1>
<SITE2>ABC</SITE2>
</SITE>
<CONTACT>
<CONTACT1>XYZ </CONTACT1>
<CONTACT2>ABC</CONTACT2>
</CONTACT>
</SUPPLIER>
XML2 for supplier without contacts
XML1
<SUPPLIER>
<NAMES>
<NAME1>XYZ1 </NAME1>
<NAME2>ABC1</NAME2>
</NAMES>
<SITE>
<SITE1>XYZ1 </SITE1>
<SITE2>ABC1</SITE2>
</SITE>
</SUPPLIER>
Can we upload data in both these xmls using only one generic dtd and xgm using XML gateway which will skip any missing tag.
Thanks
Rishi

Hi, you can FOR XML PATH for a finer degree of control over your XML. Use the @ symbol to create attributes. Here's a simple example:
DECLARE @t TABLE ( rowId INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, [address] VARCHAR(50), city VARCHAR(30), floor INT, suite INT, doorType VARCHAR(20) )
INSERT INTO @t VALUES
( '123 Fake St', 'Springfield', 10, 512, 'Metal' )
SELECT
[address] AS "Address",
city AS City,
[floor] AS "Location/@Floor",
suite AS "Location/@Suite",
doorType AS "Location/@DoorType"
FROM @t
FOR XML PATH ('Company'), ROOT ('Companies'), ELEMENTS;

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