Dear All,

Overview of my problem: If I have an inDesign document with xml
placeholders that include images (with hrefs), and import new xml which
differs only in that the hrefs have been modified to point to
different, but existing, images, inDesign prompts me with dialogs to
find every single new image -- even though the hrefs are correct and
the images physically exist.

Here's step by step what I did in inDesign CS.

- opened an html file including images in word
- saved the word file as Word, embedded and unlinked the images. The
ccs styles were all converted to Word stylesheets.
- poured the Word file into inDesign CS. This preserved all the
stylesheets.
- Created inDesign tags with the same names as the stylesheets, then
clicked a single button to map them all to the stylesheets. Now I had
an xml template in inDesign.
- Exported everything I had poured in as xml.
- Found the hrefs in the exported xml, and changed the figure names.
- Imported this xml back into the document.

This is where things went wrong: inDesign now prompted me to find every
single new image -- even though the new hrefs were correct! I was able
to verify this easily. After clicking through dialog boxes for every
bloody image, I exported the xml again and compared it to the
originally imported xml: they were identical, the hrefs were identical.

Surely this is an inDesign bug?

Does anyone know of a workaround or fix?

Thanks,

Richard Bondi