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ANN: Indesign CS3 JS help to HTML using XSLT
I felt quite at home with the previous CS's JS Help PDFs, but I'm not too wild about the ExtendScript editor. But if you don't use that, you miss out the online help! Fortunately, in one of the ExtendScript subfolders you can find an XML document with the slightly bizarre name "omv$indesign-5.0-en_us.xml". This contains the
entire help document, in handy XML format.
As an exercise, I wrote an extensive XSL stylesheet to convert it to fully cross-referenced HTML. This script is a bit too long to include here, but you can d/l it at http://www.jongware.com/binaries/indesign.xsl.
Run it through your favourite XSL processor, and you get the whole thing in one huge file. Alternatively, you can select either a single class or enumeration (such as "TextFrame") or a single alphabetic letter ("A", just to provide an example, will process all classes and enums from "AlignDistributePreference" to "AutoEnum"). In these cases, the hyperlinks will (obviously/unfortunately) fail.
It is quite possible to load the 113,000 line XML into InDesign and apply formatting to it, but I think I'll leave it at this.
As an exercise, I wrote an extensive XSL stylesheet to convert it to fully cross-referenced HTML. This script is a bit too long to include here, but you can d/l it at http://www.jongware.com/binaries/indesign.xsl.
Run it through your favourite XSL processor, and you get the whole thing in one huge file. Alternatively, you can select either a single class or enumeration (such as "TextFrame") or a single alphabetic letter ("A", just to provide an example, will process all classes and enums from "AlignDistributePreference" to "AutoEnum"). In these cases, the hyperlinks will (obviously/unfortunately) fail.
It is quite possible to load the 113,000 line XML into InDesign and apply formatting to it, but I think I'll leave it at this.
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