Re: XML & <formula>s

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

h h extern said this at Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:38:27 +0100:

>\unprotected \def\XMLtex#1%
>   {\begingroup
>    \disableXML
>    \scantokens\@EA\@EA\@EA{\csname\@@XMLdata:#1\endcsname}%
>    \endgroup}

Okay. More strange and wondrous magic. Thanks!
I notice there's a \let\XMLtex already in xtag-ini...

>\defineXMLenvironmentsave
>   [formula]
>   {}
>   {\XMLtex{formula}}

Hmm. No math there on my machine.
So do you reckon that this is an acceptable elaboration?

\defineXMLenvironmentsave
   [formula] [label=]
   {}
   {\startformula[\XMLop{label}]
     \XMLtex{formula} \stopformula}

(it runs okay on limited variations here)

Is the existing [formula] definition in xtag-mml obsolete, then?

>> Also, what's the status of contml? I like the idea of it as a simple,
>> structural, basic markup that ConTeXt handles with zero effort, but is
>> anyone actually using it?
>
>we sometimes mix it into other xml docs; i have no problem with
extending it; 
>actualy, (see mag-0008.pdf), i want to map most context directly onto xml so 
>that we have a rather complete xml input syntax

Okay, cool. I may have found my general authoring tool once I get this
transform worted...
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