From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8220 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context to XML Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:29:45 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020610102945.142b33d8.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <200206091923.00924.john@wexfordpress.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398639 25612 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "John Culleton" In-Reply-To: <200206091923.00924.john@wexfordpress.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8220 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8220 On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 19:23:00 -0400 "John Culleton" wrote: > I understand that Pragma is working on the job of making XML coded documents > work under Context. However XML does not have ways of showing refinements > such as hanging punctuation etc. AFAIK. > So I have two questions: > > Is there a reverse path from Context to XML encoding? Not that I know of. But XML is as precise as you define it's dtd, so there is no reason why stuff like the XML code below would not be acceptable XML (tedious though). So, the question is: what DTD do you want to use, and are you free to extend it if needed? > Is the loss of detail in this reverse path so great so as to make the use > of fine typesetting useless? > > There are databases of published documents that require conversion to > XML, hence my questions. > -- > John Culleton > Able Indexers and Typesetters > http://wexfordpress.com > > > > __________________________________________________ > D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" > http://www.doteasy.com -- groeten, Taco