With all the structure-related tools available to you in InCopy, particularly the Structure pane and the Tags palette, you might think that InCopy would be an ideal tool for writing raw XML files. That's not really a viable approach. InCopy is ideal as a receptacle for XML files, and as such, the InCopy tools are designed for fixing, tweaking, or massaging incoming XML. Writing XML is best done in a true XML editor like Oxygen, XMLSpy, or BBEdit and is best left to those who are familiar with writing XML. InCopy users need only be XML-savvy enough to import, apply, and fix XML as needed in the InCopy document. In most workflows, InCopy users will probably get their XML either from an external XML file or in the process of checking out an InCopy story or assignment. Some InCopy users will be called upon to import an existing set of tags and apply them to an InCopy document. |