xml, mainlanguage de, handlecompoundchar

[Patrick Gundlach <gundlach@irb.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hi,

I try to compile the code below. "All" I get is an error:

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
entering extended mode

[...]

ConTeXt  ver: 2001.7.11  fmt: 2001.7.16  int: english  mes: english
[...]

systems        : begin file xml at line 4
<xml-xml.tmp> (./xml-xml.tmp
! Undefined control sequence.
\handlecompoundcharacter ...ndlecompoundcharacter 
                                                  {\ifx \next \bgroup \def \...

\dodoparseXMLarguments #1->\if #1
                                 >\let \dodoparseXMLarguments \empty \else \...
<argument> name="
                 small" 
\dodoXMLelement ...arguments \currentXMLelement #2
                                                  >\fi \fi \executeXMLelemen...
l.2  <title name="small">
                         Ein kleines xml-Dokument</title>
? 

without the mainlanguage[de] there is no problem. I know, that 
this happened to Johannes before, but that time he was not using 
pdfetex (in extended mode) I guess and he was using metapost. 

Any Idea how to solve this?

------------------------------ the file:
% output=pdf

\mainlanguage[de]
\starttext
\defineXMLenvironment [document] \startnarrower \stopnarrower
\defineXMLargument [title] \midaligned
\defineXMLenvironment [list] \startitemize \stopitemize
\defineXMLcommand [item] \item
\defineXMLgrouped [b] \bf
\defineXMLentity [context] \ConTeXt
\defineXMLentity [dots] \dots

\setuptyping[file][option=xml]

\startbuffer
<document> 
 <title name="small">Ein kleines xml-Dokument</title> 
  <list packed="yes"> 
    <item>sinnloser Text, der sehr  <b>wichtig</b> ist.
          </item> 
    <item>&context; kann aber noch viel kompliziertere
          Dinge tun &dots;</item>
   </list> 
</document>
\stopbuffer
\processXMLbuffer
\stoptext

Viele Grüße,

  Patrick Gundlach

- I TeX, therefore I am -