[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt source from XML

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 6/6/2024 5:33 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> On 6/5/24 20:23, Christoph Edenhauser wrote:
>> Dear Pablo,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your very clear, detailed and elaborate
>> explanations.  - Over the next few days I will meditate on the ConTeXt
>> way to handle XML and on my workflow and take a look at lpath (never
>> heard of it). And somehow I have the impression that the next few days
>> will last a few weeks.
> 
> Dear Christoph,
> 
> just in case it might help to your meditation.
> 
> First of all, lpaths are XPath implemented with Lua in ConTeXt.
> 
> XPath seems to have as it primary purpose to address the nodes of XML trees.
> 
> About your sources, the real issue here is to define whether you want
> TEI or TeX to be the format containing them.
> 
> I mean, if you add explaining footnotes to your TeX file(s), XML won’t
> be source anymore.
> 
> If you don’t want this to happen, you have to encode them in the TEI XML
> sources.
> 
> One last suggestion about proofreading. This is something I learnt from
> personal experience.
> 
> The first reading is much better to catch errors in the text than the
> subsequent ones.
> 
> Having the text properly formatted and printed on paper helps a lot to
> spot errors.
> 
> Reading source code is cheaper (no doubt), but the results will be
> poorer too.
> 
> Just in case it might help,
fwiw, context supports 'synctex' to xml files / nodes so that might help 
a bit

Hans

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