Re: XML in Quark or Illustrator
Sorry it's taken me so long to actually respond to the answers here, it's been a rough fortnight.
OK, so I had hung my yahoo out and googled it but wasn't getting anything that would give me a background to start from, most of the articles I saw seemed to assume that if you knew what XML was then you apparently knew the secret handshake and nothing more needed to be said. In the meantime, I have found out that I am not getting "Well Formed" XML from the customer in question. Therefore, all the tutorials in the world aren't going to help either of us this year. I'm very interested in the XData xtension or InData as well. Both look promising. I'll need to take an 099 course on scripting but it shouldn't be that difficult to pick it up again well enough to format a directory. I would like to know how anyone else is handling formatting like this, it's for a directory as such, "Last name, First Name, Address, Phone and Email". Sounds simple but there are several THOUSAND names.
Is that clearer? How do you guys handle this, Is there a script I can pick up somewhere and tweak, Is anyone out there using XData? Looking forward to these answers.
Thanks for trying to help me,
Monkey