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USING QUARKXPRESS SERVER
<RICHTEXT MERGE="false">anchored box
</RICHTEXT>
</PARAGRAPH>
</STORY>
</TEXT>
</BOX>
</SPREAD>
</LAYOUT>
</PROJECT>
Note that there are two BOX elements. One is the parent box that has the element
ANCHOREDBOXREF, which points to the name of the anchored box. The anchored
box itself has the attribute ANCHOREDIN, which points to the name of the parent
box.
Working with placeholders
Placeholders allow a region of text in a QuarkXPress project to hold non-printing
metadata. You can use placeholders to store information from other systems, or to
provide information to third-party XTensions software or other tools that operate
on QuarkXPress projects.
Placeholders are used by technologies within QuarkXPress, such as XML import.
Modifier XT allows placeholder data to be added to a QuarkXPress project from your
application, and the placeholder data can be read from a project using the xml
namespace.
Unless a third-party XTensions software module for QuarkXPress is created to
manage the placeholders inserted by your application using Modifier XML, a user is
not prohibited from deleting placeholders from within the QuarkXPress user
interface. In fact, users are not alerted to the presence of placeholders through the
QuarkXPress user interface. You can use APIs in the QuarkXPress Server XTensions
Software XDK to allow a suitable user interface for managing the placeholders
inserted by your application. Contact QuarkAlliance for details about the XTensions
software developer program.
There are two types of placeholders supported in Modifier XML: Text placeholders
and Text Node placeholders. Text placeholders can be placed around a run of text to
identify particular metadata with that text content.
<PROJECT>
<LAYOUT>
<ID UID="1"/>
<SPREAD>
<ID UID="1"/>
<BOX>
<ID NAME="name"/>
<TEXT>
<STORY CLEAROLDTEXT="true">
<PARAGRAPH PARASTYLE="Normal"/>
<RICHTEXT>This is text that</RICHTEXT>
<TEXTPH NAME="SOURCE_UID"
OWNER="1347639377">
<RICHTEXT>has a
placeholder</RICHTEXT>
</TEXTPH>
</STORY>
</TEXT>
</BOX>
</SPREAD>
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