Tagged Text in InDesign 5.5

Question

I posted this in the general discussion and was pointed to scripting.
I use tagged text in the files I place
in InDesign. For example,
<cn>This is the chapter number
<ct>This is the chapter title
<cst>This is the chapter subtitle
<bt>This is the beginning of the body text
<ah>This is an A-level head
                and so on. In PageMaker, there was a checkbox in the "place"
dialogue box named "Read tags." I checked that, and when I placed the file in the template (in which I had the styles defined), the whole chapter appeared with the formatting I wanted for each style. I could use anything I wanted for a text tag, as long as it was in <>. If it wasn't defined in the PM document, it came in in the basic style but could be formatted on the fly in PageMaker.
                I can't find the equivalent checkbox in InDesign. I can't believe it is no longer there, but I can't find it. There is a lot online about exporting tagged text, but where, oh where, is my checkbox for placing tagged text? If someone knows where it is, I'd be very grateful. It seems that such a great (and incredibly easy) function shouldn't be gone.
Thanks (and apologies to those who already saw this in the general discussion),

Answer 1

Well, not quite four hours, but yes, I couldn’t get it to work. For one thing, I wasn’t sure about the header to use, since I’m on Windows. I used <ASCII-WIN>
<Version:7><FeatureSet:InDesign-Roman>
<pstyle:ah>
<pstyle:ah_bib>
<pstyle:bib>
<pstyle:bh>
<pstyle:bl>
<pstyle:bl_ext>
<pstyle:bt>
<pstyle:bt_fl>
<pstyle:cn>
<pstyle:ct>
<pstyle:cst>
<pstyle:epi>
<pstyle:epi_source>
<pstyle:ext>
<pstyle:ext_1stpara>
<pstyle:ext_2dpara>
<pstyle:fn>
<pstyle:fn_2dpara>
<pstyle:poem>
<pstyle:poem_1st>
<pstyle:poem_last>
I added the above to one of my tagged text files and saved it from Word as .xml. When I brought it into InDesign, I got a sidebar with a couple of entries, one of which expanded to several “parts.” There was nothing in the template until I double clicked (I think that’s what I did; maybe right clicked) one of those sidebar items and placed the text. It came it as one long file with no returns and no formatting. The tags remained as text.
I came back to the Internet and found an article by Peter Kahrel entitled “A GREP queries manager.” OK, I admit I didn’t understand much of it, but the notion of chaining queries sounds good.
I did the Lynda.com tutorials when I was first ordered to make the change to InDesign (last month). I found them very helpful, but if they have anything on this, I missed it. Maybe I was too busy figuring out how to turn pages, find things on the pasteboard, and determine what character styles are and why I have to use them J
“Not hard”? Um, what is the etiquette for asking you to do this task for me? I’m assuming that once I had a script in hand, I could add new paragraph styles by mimicking the entries. Is that right? Would it really be as easy as opening all the files and running the script to make the changes throughout? That sounds wonderful. Even running it on one at a time would be a great improvement. Do I need to contact you off list, and, if so, how?
Thanks . . . yet again.