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I have an InDesign workflow where I export an tri-monthly updated document to IDML and then run some rather complex XSLT transformations to produce an XML output.

I did not change anything in my XSLT and the last time my XML was fine. Now the XML output I got is rather fragmented. Tags got randomly deleted, following no obvious pattern.

I tried everything from debugging my XSLT to applying new paragraph styles in InDesign to deleting "suspicious" characters like fixed whitespaces etc.

No luck.

Jean Zombie
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After literally hours I found this simple fix:

For each part of my XML that is corrupted, create a completely new text frame in InDesign. Then copy & paste the content from the old one into it. The IDML export and XSLT transformation worked again as expected (in my case).

I suppose something went wrong "under the hood" when I placed the new content in InDesign in the first place. Maybe a corrupted word document or such.

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