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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: xml: spurious empty spaces
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:47:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cb4dfaf-014b-15a1-6641-e7e9016ae1ca@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E10A977A-DB11-40D5-B8E8-1C25F482E5D5@uni-bonn.de>

On 10/19/2016 12:07 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> below is a slightly silly example that demonstrates a problem I’m having: I want to process (in Lua) the xml element “b” only when it has an attribute “display” set. This works, but elements without the attribute leave spurious spaces in the pdf output. The workaround I’m currently using is
>
> if xml.attribute(e, "./", "display", "") ~= "yes" then
>   context.unskip()
> else
>   …
>
> but that seems like a kludge. Is this expected behavior, or should this be fixed?

\startxmlsetups xml:a
     \ignorespaces
     \xmlflush{#1}
     \removeunwantedspaces
\stopxmlsetups

\startxmlsetups xml:b
     \ignorespaces
     \xmlfunction{#1}{b}
     \removeunwantedspaces
\stopxmlsetups

> Thanks
>
> Thomas
>
> \startbuffer[test]
> <a>
>   <b display="yes">test</b>
>   <b>test</b>
>   <b>test</b>
>   <b>test</b>
>   <b display="yes">test</b>
>   <b display="yes">test</b>
>   <b>test</b>
> </a>
> \stopbuffer
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:testsetups
> 	\xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a|b}{xml:*}
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> \xmlregistersetup{xml:testsetups}
>
> \startluacode
>   function xml.functions.b(e)
>   xml.strip(e, "/", nolines, anywhere)
>   if xml.attribute(e, "./", "display", "") == "yes" then
>       context.space()
>       context("/")
>       context.space()
>       lxml.flush(e)
>     end
>   end
> \stopluacode
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:a
> 	\xmlflush{#1}
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:b
>  	 \xmlfunction{#1}{b}
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> \starttext
> \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{test}{}
>
> \stoptext
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 10:07 Thomas A. Schmitz
2016-10-19 11:47 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-10-19 16:02   ` Thomas A. Schmitz

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