Re: MKIV and XML documentation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Johannes Graumann wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> What is currently the best source for documentation on mark iv's xml
>>> capabilities?
>> there is a chapter in mk.pdf; next year i'll write a manual (and i'll 
>> probably give a tutorial at the context conference)
> 
> I have read that chapter and I wonder whether this XML handling will be 
> available in LuaTeX or it will be exclusive for ConTeXt.

luatex is just lua + tex + access to each other, the luatex dev team 
will *not* provide solutions; mkiv is what we use for testing etc etc

> Sorry if the question seems to be stupid. I would like to know whether 
> this will be available for LuaTeX + LaTeX one day.

i'm thinking of a multi layer context i.e. kind of macro package 
building subsystem; this means that we can for instance provide a kind 
of bare tex with only core functionality (fonts, languages, io, xml, etc)

i have no plans to support latex if only because i have no need for it; 
the xml parser is rather generic, which is why it is in l-xml, but 
things may change (there will be more functionality, as in lxml-*)

(btw, the lpath code is somewhat experimental and will be extended, as 
will manipulative functions)

Hans


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