Can't Get InDesign Bullets & Character Styles to Display Through XML

[mandybailey2]

I've created some text on an InDesign document which I want to display as a list using XML.

for example:

     This is my list of items to display

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

I have the text listed using bullets through a style I've created myself.

I tagged the text & mapped it to the new character style & then exported it to XML.

It creates all the text for me but won't display it as a list.

I'm pretty good with InDesign but only just started to learn XML & find it so confusing.

Also on standard paragraphs of text which I've typed in, I've applied my new character & paragraph styles, tagged the text & exported to XML, but again the styles aren't coming through.

Please can somebody advise if this is a setting in InDesign that I need to change, or is it something else?

Thanks

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[MW Design]

The linked ZIP contains an ID CS6 file and an XML file. Take a look at what I did. If/when you have questions, just feel free to reply to this thread. I come around a couple times a day--usually.

Mike

Dropbox - forumPost.zip

[Stefan Rakete]

Hi, (with InDesign CC) I opened your InDesign document with the styles, imported the XML and dragged from the InDesign XML structure onto the page. Looks good to me (see screenshot)

[Loic.Aigon]

IMHO, your problem may be located in the import options. If you chose to get rid of empty spaces, then the carriage returns might be removed where you need it. Then you get this :

But if you uncheck that option, you will get the result Stefan Rakete​ just showed.

[MW Design]

Yes, I should have included a screen shot of my import options...thanks, Loic.

I do all XML work in an XML editor prior to import, so I never use that option (I leave it unchecked).

Mike