Re: question for the xml-experts

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2822 bytes --]

You may consider giving dbcontext a look, it is written in python and
seems to use xsl to translate DocBook's xml into TeX files to be typeset
by ConTeXt. http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/pt02.html

Regards,
 Khaled

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 06:40:51PM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is not a question about direct technical details, but more of a  
> conceptual problem, and I would love to have your input and ideas on  
> this. I will be editing several edited volumes in my field (humanities, 
> classics). From experience, I know that it's impossible to make scholars 
> in the humanities adhere to standards. Each and every one of them will 
> turn in a paper (most of them written in half a dozen different versions 
> of Word) with its own idiosyncracies. At my last conference, I asked them 
> to please use Unicode for their Greek passages, and I got blank looks and 
> the question "What the hell is Unicode?"
>
> So: I want to extract the content of these papers and process it with  
> ConTeXt. I thought the easiest route might be convert them to OpenOffice 
> odt and then use the content.xml as a starting point. Since the 
> formatting will be unusable anyways, it doesn't make sense to process the 
> odt directly; instead, I want to transform the xml via xslt to a 
> simplified format and then process that with ConTeXt. I have just 
> discovered the tool xalan ( http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/index.html ) 
> which allows me to use an xslt style sheet and direct the output to a new 
> file. I will then need to clean up these xml files and write a mkiv xml 
> setup for them.
>
> So for those who know much more about this sort of workflow: does that  
> make sense? Is there any better way to achieve these results, i.e., have 
> the content of a couple of papers in Word and/or rtf format and typeset 
> it in a consistent ConTeXt environment? Is there any tool better than 
> xslt to convert the OpenOffice xml than xslt (anything in lua that can 
> parse xml)? Anything better than xalan to convert xm -> xml? I'm just 
> beginning to plan this, so I'd be most grateful for any pointers.
>
> Thanks for reading this long message, all best
>
> Thomas
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
>
> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
> webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
> archive  : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
> ___________________________________________________________________________________

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

[-- Attachment #1.2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 487 bytes --]

___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive  : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________