Abstract: A method and system for permitting automated pagination process in E-Publishing process, mainly on XML documents. The system facilitates XPATH based control for applying paragraph and character styles. Further, the system allows automatic layout of changes based on style specifications. Auto master page recognition feature of the system assures consistency in the page design. The system also facilitates auto placement of figures and tables according to a cited reference. The system is capable of auto generation and placement of boxes, side notes, footnotes and marginal notes in the document. Further, the system allows conversion of source XML to other formats such as NIMAS XML, EPub, and Word etc. Further, the file conversion has two stages namely Forward and Reverse process. During forward process, XML file is converted into InDesign document and in Reverse process, InDesign document is converted back to XML file.