Shoot just realized we can't even do that as InDesign uses mandatory
  nested tags to define paragraph styles, like <this is a tag<this is a
  nested tag>>, so perhaps I will have to look at this all another way??

google lead me to
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/crossmedia.html#xmlID
which does indicate that indesign does support XML in some form or
other. Do you have to use a <foo <bar>> syntax?

David


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