XML not loading in certain tagged elements

Hi,

Your mistake is due to your misunderstanding of some basic rules when importing XML within InDesign. The first one is that the incoming structure MUST match the existing structure. In your XML sample, you have this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <players>
     <Player1_HeadInformation/>
     <Player1_SubInformation/>
     <!--ETC.-->
 </players>
 

But your InDesign structure is more like

<players>

<Player1_HeadInformation/>

<Player3_SubInformation/>

<Player2_HeadInformation/>

etc.

So when the xml content comes, the first node is ok. Player1_HeadInformation position is compliant. But then arrives Player1_SubInformation and the following xmlElement is Player3_SubInformation. Not the expected node. At this stage, either you choose to ignore unmatching nodes so the xml engine will continue until it finds a Player3_SubInformation node he can inject, or the engine will push the Player1_SubInformation possibly disregarding any styles properties and messing things up probably.

If you have hands onto structures, I would recommend a more generic approach like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <players>
     <player>
         <PlayerNumber>1</PlayerNumber>
     </player>
     <player>
         <PlayerNumber>2</PlayerNumber>
     </player>
     <player>
         <PlayerNumber>3</PlayerNumber>
     </player>
 </players>
 

Then you indesign template is like one node to be repeated:

And then whatever the players order, you are fine:

Don't forget the magic box

Here you are !

HTH

Loic

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