9.2
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- Changes in this version
- Getting started
- Using the Web interface
- Understanding rendering
- Understanding logging
- Understanding render types
- Understanding render modifiers
- Using content modifiers
- Using XML modify
- Using XML deconstruct and construct
- Deconstructing a project
- Constructing a project
- Working with pages and spreads
- Working with layers
- Working with boxes
- Working with groups
- Working with pictures
- Working with text
- Working with tables
- Working with sections
- Working with Composition Zones
- Using XSL transformation
- Working with lists
- Working with anchored boxes
- Working with placeholders
- Working with metadata
- Working with hidden text
- Creating and using hyperlinks
- Using the Streaming Document Provider
- Using administrative request handlers
- Using the QXPSM SDK
- Modifier DTD (annotated)
- Entities (Modifier DTD)
- ADDCELLS (Modifier DTD)
- ALIGNHORSETTINGS (Modifier DTD)
- ALIGNVERSETTINGS (Modifier DTD)
- ALLOWBOXOFFPAGE (Modifier DTD)
- ALLOWBOXONTOPASTEBOARD (Modifier DTD)
- ANCHOREDBOXREF (Modifier DTD)
- ARTICLE (Modifier DTD)
- AUTHOR (Modifier DTD)
- BNSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- BOTTOM (Modifier DTD)
- BOTTOMGRID (Modifier DTD)
- BOX (Modifier DTD)
- BOXREF (Modifier DTD)
- CALLOUTANCHOR (Modifier DTD)
- CALLOUTBOXREF (Modifier DTD)
- CELL (Modifier DTD)
- CHILDID (Modifier DTD)
- CLIPPING (Modifier DTD)
- COLGROUP (Modifier DTD)
- COLSPEC (Modifier DTD)
- COLUMN (Modifier DTD)
- COMPONENT (Modifier DTD)
- COMPOSITIONZONE (Modifier DTD)
- CONTENT (Modifier DTD)
- CONTENTPH (Modifier DTD)
- CONTINUEDHEADER (Modifier DTD)
- CONTINUEDTROWSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- CONTOUR (Modifier DTD)
- CONTOURS (Modifier DTD)
- COPYFIT (Modifier DTD)
- COPYRIGHT (Modifier DTD)
- DATAPROVIDER (Modifier DTD)
- DELETECELLS (Modifier DTD)
- DESCRIPTION (Modifier DTD)
- DROPCAP (Modifier DTD)
- EBOOKMETADATA (Modifier DTD)
- ENTRY (Modifier DTD)
- EVENTCOLSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- EVENTROWSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- FIRSTTCOLSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- FIT (Modifier DTD)
- FITTEXT (Modifier DTD)
- FOOTER (Modifier DTD)
- FOOTERTROWSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- FORMAT (Modifier DTD)
- FRAME (Modifier DTD)
- GEOMETRY (Modifier DTD)
- GRID (Modifier DTD)
- GRIDLINE (Modifier DTD)
- GROUP (Modifier DTD)
- GROUPCHARACTERS (Modifier DTD)
- GROWACROSS (Modifier DTD)
- GROWDOWN (Modifier DTD)
- HEADER (Modifier DTD)
- HEADTROWSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- HEIGHT(Modifier DTD)
- HIDDEN (Modifier DTD)
- HYPERLINK (Modifier DTD)
- ID (Modifier DTD)
- INLINETABLE (Modifier DTD)
- INSET (Modifier DTD)
- INTERACTIVITY (Modifier DTD)
- ISBN (Modifier DTD)
- KEEPLINESTOGETHER (Modifier DTD)
- KEYWORDS (Modifier DTD)
- LASTTCOLSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- LAYER (Modifier DTD)
- LAYOUT (Modifier DTD)
- LAYOUTREF (Modifier DTD)
- LEFT (Modifier DTD)
- LEFTCONTROLPOINT (Modifier DTD)
- LEFTGRID (Modifier DTD)
- LINESTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- LINKEDBOX (Modifier DTD)
- LIST (Modifier DTD)
- LOCATION (Modifier DTD)
- LOCKTOGRID (Modifier DTD)
- MAX (Modifier DTD)
- METADATA (Modifier DTD)
- MIN (Modifier DTD)
- MOVEDOWN (Modifier DTD)
- MOVELEFT (Modifier DTD)
- MOVERIGHT (Modifier DTD)
- MOVEUP (Modifier DTD)
- ODDTROWSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- ODDTCOLSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- ORIGIN (Modifier DTD)
- OVERMATTER (Modifier DTD)
- PAGE (Modifier DTD)
- PAGEREF (Modifier DTD)
- PARAGRAPH (Modifier DTD)
- PARENTTABLE (Modifier DTD)
- PICTURE (Modifier DTD)
- PLACEHOLDER (Modifier DTD)
- POSITION (Modifier DTD)
- PROJECT (Modifier DTD)
- PUBLICATION (Modifier DTD)
- PUBLICATIONCHANNEL (Modifier DTD)
- PUBLISHER (Modifier DTD)
- RELPOSITION (Modifier DTD)
- RGBCOLOR (Modifier DTD)
- RICHTEXT (Modifier DTD)
- RIGHT (Modifier DTD)
- RIGHTCONTROLPOINT (Modifier DTD)
- RIGHTGRID (Modifier DTD)
- ROW (Modifier DTD)
- RUBI (Modifier DTD)
- RUBITEXT (Modifier DTD)
- RULE (Modifier DTD)
- RUNAROUND (Modifier DTD)
- SAVEAS (Modifier DTD)
- SCALETO (Modifier DTD)
- SECTION (Modifier DTD)
- SHADOW (Modifier DTD)
- SHRINKACROSS (Modifier DTD)
- SHRINKDOWN (Modifier DTD)
- SIZE (Modifier DTD)
- SPINEIMAGE (Modifier DTD)
- SPLINESHAPE (Modifier DTD)
- SPREAD (Modifier DTD)
- STACKINGORDER (Modifier DTD)
- STORY (Modifier DTD)
- SUPPRESSOUTPUT (Modifier DTD)
- TAB (Modifier DTD)
- TABLE (Modifier DTD)
- TABLEBREAK (Modifier DTD)
- TABLESTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- TABSPEC (Modifier DTD)
- TBODY (Modifier DTD)
- TCOL (Modifier DTD)
- TCOLSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- TCONTINUED (Modifier DTD)
- TEXT (Modifier DTD)
- TEXTNODEPH (Modifier DTD)
- TEXTPH (Modifier DTD)
- TFOOT (Modifier DTD)
- THEAD (Modifier DTD)
- TITLE (Modifier DTD)
- TOP (Modifier DTD)
- TOPGRID (Modifier DTD)
- TROW (Modifier DTD)
- TROWSTYLE (Modifier DTD)
- VALUE (Modifier DTD)
- VERTEX (Modifier DTD)
- VERTEXPOINT (Modifier DTD)
- VERTICES (Modifier DTD)
- WIDTH (Modifier DTD)
- Sample applications
- Contacting Quark
- Legal notices
- Index
It's important to understand that although the construct namespace uses the same DTD
that you use when you modify an existing project, the construct namespace uses it
differently. When you use the construct namespace, the XML you pass simply contains
a description of everything in the document you want to create — much as an HTML file
describes a page you want to display in a browser. There is no need to use a command
and create elements such as ADDCELLS, OPERATION, and MOVERIGHT; you simply describe
each item in the layout with elements such as <BOX> and <TABLE>, and specify each item's
position with the <POSITION> element type. When you use the modify attribute without
the construct namespace, however, the XML you pass must contain commands that
show how you want QuarkXPress Server to modify the project.
For more information, see "Modifier DTD (annotated)."
Working with pages and spreads
The root element of a deconstructed QuarkXPress project is <PROJECT>. Within each
<PROJECT> element are one or more <LAYOUT> elements. Each layout contains one or
more <SPREAD> elements, and each <SPREAD> contains one or more <PAGE> elements.
Each layout, spread, and page has a unique name, indicated by its <ID> element.
Each layout can have a unique name, indicated by its <ID> element's NAME attribute. You
can use a layout's name when referring to that layout in a non-construct call that uses the
MODIFY attribute. The ID@NAME attribute is ignored for <SPREAD> and <PAGE> elements,
but you can refer to them numerically with their <ID> element's UID attribute, with "1"
being the first, "2" being the second, and so forth.
With most element types, it is best to assign an ID@NAME value to an element and use that
to refer to the element, because ID@UID values are defined by QuarkXPress Server and thus
ignored for construct calls. <PAGE> and <SPREAD> are exceptions to this rule.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<PROJECT JOBJACKET=" MacintoshHD:brochures:BrochureJJ.xml"
JOBTICKET="Tall US Brochure Ticket"
PROJECTNAME="project1.qxp">
<LAYOUT>
<ID NAME="Layout 1" />
<SPREAD>
<ID UID="1" />
<PAGE POSITION="RIGHTOFSPINE" MASTER="3">
<ID UID="2" />
</PAGE>
...
Each page has a POSITION attribute that indicates which side of the spine it is on. (In
single-sided layouts, every page is given a POSITION of RIGHTOFSPINE).
You can assign items to a page using the GEOMETRY element, which is a child of the BOX
and TABLE elements. For example:
<BOX BOXTYPE="CT_TEXT" COLOR="White">
<ID NAME="Title Box" />
<GEOMETRY LAYER="Default" PAGE="1" SHAPE="SH_RECT">
<POSITION>
<TOP>90</TOP>
<LEFT>95</LEFT>
<BOTTOM>190</BOTTOM>
<RIGHT>195</RIGHT>
</POSITION>
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