XML: tagging groups that are not together in layout

[Rowan_Ferguson@adobeforums.com]

On my page, I have an image that is top left but the caption is bottom right (ie: there is body text between the image and caption). How do I tag these 2 elements together while maintaining my layout?

for example, I want the XML to look something like this:

<image_group>
<image>

</image>


description of image

</image_group>

But in the layout there is body text in between the image and the caption that I want to maintain for the print version. How do I achieve this?

[Rowan_Ferguson@adobeforums.com]

Appologies, the post ruined my code example. It was supposed to look like this:
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[pjredman@adobeforums.com]

Rowan,

You can use the tools available in the structure view to create new XML elements, move elements, and nest elements as shown above. This is a manual process via the GUI. Moving elements associated with text frames and graphics frames in the structure view does not effect the layout, however, if you move elements associated with text the text will move in the layout. Also note that there seems to be a bug that causes text to loose its assigned paragraph or character styles when the associated XML element is moved in the structure view.

Phil Redman

[Rowan_Ferguson@adobeforums.com]

So how would I go about adding a container in the structure view - for example "image_group" that does not exist physically in the layout at all (rather like a div to wrap around my image and caption)?

[pjredman@adobeforums.com]

In the structure view menu select New Element. A new element will appear at the end of the structure. Give it whatever tag name you like and drag it to the location in the structure where you want it. Now you can drag any elements you want the new element to wrap around and drop them onto the new element.

Phil Redman