: How do I get InDesign to import XML into table cells? First, let me preface by saying i've read through James Maivald's Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML, but i'm still really confused.

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First, let me preface by saying i've read through James Maivald's Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML, but i'm still really confused.

I have an XML document that looks like:

<foo>
<bar>
<one>1234</one>
<two>5678</two>
<three>9101112</three>
</bar>
(multiple more bar elements)
</foo>


In an ideal world, I would be able to import this document into InDesign with the following "table"

| Alpha | (one's value) |
| Beta | (two's value) |
| Delta | (three's value) |


With the tables repeating, of course.

I can't seem to find a good guide to making this work - even basic XML import was a little challenging, though I finally got that working. Do I need to use XSLT to transform the document into an equal number of cells, or can someone tell me what I need to complete the process? Is there a better reference for XML in InDesign that specifically covers table shenanigans?

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