XML as input in InDesign

Hi,
I am sorry to say that but as I see, there are not a lot of answers when there are questions regarding XML as text input.
Perhaps can somebody make some suggestions regarding where can I search for such answers (books, other forums ...)?
Thanks,
Dan

Try this book:
Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML, A: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows
by James Maivald
has downloadable examples

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</xsl:for-each>
</Country>
</xsl:for-each>
</Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
(That file should be saved as "transform2.xsl" to match the link on line 2 of the XML.)
Hope that works -- Jeremy

XML import/export in inDesign

Hello,
I am new to inDesign so please bear with me if I am asking something basic. I have been searching for an answer on Google, but could not find it. Here's what I am trying to do:
We have a lot of existing inDesign files in our company. Our intent is to manage the individual components of these files in a third-party content management system. The CMS uses XML like most other systems.Since inDesign has a lot of built in XML features, I decided to try it out in a sample file (none of our existing inDesign files have XML tags). I created tags and manually tagged the content. After this, I was able to export the content to an XML file. Great so far.
The question is, can I export the layout and style information also? If so, can this be extracted to a separate file, maybe another XML file? The reason I am asking is that if I store the content XML along with layout and style info in the CMS, I should be able to use these to open a new inDesign session, import the layout information and then import my XML content file and it should display with all formatting and style intact. Is this possible?
thanks for your time and help.

Thanks, this is good info.
I tried an export and was able to reimport succesfully. But, when I open the IMDL archive file, I see a lot of folders and files (Master spreads, resources, spreads etc.). It looks like I need to store this entire IMDL file in our CMS. That's ok, I can do that, but I am not sure if this works. Here's what I tried:
- I imported the IMDL file into a new inDesign session. This showed my content correctly formatted.
- I made a change to the exported XML file that I had created earlier from the "export to XML" command. Such changes will be done through the CMS system using workflows.
- I imported this file and used "File->import XML" and selected "Merge Content". In the next dialog, I selected "Only import elements that match existing structure" and "Do not import contents of whitespace-only elements".
- This did not bring in my changes as I thought it would. The styles were also screwed up.
I may be doing something wrong, though. Will try again next week.
thanks

XML as input in InDesign

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