Thursday, January 07, 2010

FAQ: Extracting articles for archive database

Q: The articles from our Newspaper must be pushed into the database of our web site. We do not need a flip page e-Book like exported from BatchXSLT for InDesign. Is such an export mode available?

A: YES - indeed! The standard export created by BatchXSLT for InDesign shows up in a browser as an eBook. This is one out of many possible view modes only!
This exported XML also can be used directly - it is 'all purpose XML' - to retrieve article by article.
Open the XML file in plain text editor and locate the elements <article>....</article>.
All articles are exported page by page and are enclosed by an 'article' element.

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