Re: getting inside xhtml / mkii

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Jelle Huisman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to process have a rather complicated xhtml file with dictionary 
> data containing lots of entries like:
> 
> <span class="word" lang="nld">papa</span>
> <span class="defenition" lang="en">
>     <span class="xlanguagetag" lang="en">Eng </span>
>         daddy</span>
> 
> I tried to write some code to get the individual data elements into my 
> ConTeXt-module, but I didn't succeed. This:
> 
> \defineXMLargument [span 
> class="word"]{\Mywordstyle{\XMLvar{class="word"}{}}}


  \defineXMLargument
    [span]
    [class=word]
    {\Mywordstyle{\XMLpar{span}{class}{default-value}}}

> for example fails, it gives all the data within all the different 
> span's, whereas I want to select the different data items using the 
> <span class-attributes (and typeset the different items in different 
> ways afterwards). Maybe I miss something obvious, but I would appreciate 
> some help to solve this. (BTW: I use MKII for this project)

consider switching to context mkiv which gives access to the xml tree

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