Low Tech vs. High Tech XML
But there is an easier way (some might say “cheesier” way). If you know that xml describes data, and an article or book chapter is just “loosely-structured data”, you can use that knowledge for a low-tech solution.
InDesign CS5 and GREP Style: No more orphaned words
As you may know, InDesign CS5 offers a lot of support for fixing widows and orphans in its upgraded keep options. It can prevent single lines at the end of a paragraph from wrapping to the next column or spread (orphan) or a single line starting a paragaph at the end of a column or [...]