Re: ConTeXt + TEI (an SGML derivate)

["Johannes Hüsing" <tmi0m0@uni-essen.de>]

On Thu 2000-04-27 (20:34), Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hallo Hans, hallo Johannes, hi all,

Hallo Tobias,
> 
> > > One way of doing it is to use a simple xslt style sheet that maps elements
> > > onto context commands. In most cases one can ignore attributes, since they
> > > are handled at the style level. Things like:
> > > <chapter>whatever</chapter>
> > >
> > > are mapped by
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="chapter">
> > > \chapter{<xsl:apply-templates/>}
> > > </xsl:template>
> > > \chapter{whatever}
> This doesn't seem to work here using TEI (SGML, tei.dtd) and with Java
> XT (PR-xslt-19991008) and a selfwritten incomplete stylesheet (XSL).
> 
> I get something like
> \chapter{
> whatever
> }

Is this parsed any differently by ConTeXt than \chapter{whatever} or are
you concerned about a messy looking ConTeXt file?

Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about the SGML/XML complex. I am interested
theoretically, hence my first reply may have sounded more knowledgable than
I actually am. 

I am quite disappointed with the fact that the Linuxdoc project is discontinued
and that the javatex package is not lavishly documented (by what I have
found so far), so if ConTeXt gained ground in this territory this would 
sound like a killer app to me.

Back to your problem: If the Java tool causes unwanted linefeeds, an 
obvious workaraound would be inserting

An obvious workaround would be to set up style annotations like:

<xsl:template match="chapter">
\chapter{%delete trailing linefeed<xsl:apply-templates/>%delete preceding linefeed}
</xsl:template>
and run the result through a filter which clears these comments along with 
the linefeeds.

Groetjes

Johannes