typesetting xml targets

typesetting xml targets

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hi all,

I'm currently experimenting with the TEI schema for critical editions. There's one thing that goes beyond my minimal understanding: for internal references, the guidelines strongly suggest defining them with the xml:id attribute. Let's take the example of a textual witness, which could be defined as

<witness xml:id="A">manuscript A</witness>

Whenever this witness is referenced, it will be done with a target:

<rdg wit="#A">Hello</rdg>

How can I catch such targets in my ConTeXt setup? Would it be possible to have the #A translated into a macro \WIT:A or something like that? Would it be possible to have ConTeXt read in the value of the <witness> tag to which the taget refers and typset that? There must be something easier than a huge set of nested \doifelse calls, but I can't quite find what would be the best way.

I hope this question isn't too confusing...

Thanks, and best

Thomas
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Re: typesetting xml targets

[Hans Hagen]

On 8-10-2010 2:46, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently experimenting with the TEI schema for critical editions. There's one thing that goes beyond my minimal understanding: for internal references, the guidelines strongly suggest defining them with the xml:id attribute. Let's take the example of a textual witness, which could be defined as
>
> <witness xml:id="A">manuscript A</witness>
>
> Whenever this witness is referenced, it will be done with a target:
>
> <rdg wit="#A">Hello</rdg>
>
> How can I catch such targets in my ConTeXt setup? Would it be possible to have the #A translated into a macro \WIT:A or something like that? Would it be possible to have ConTeXt read in the value of the<witness>  tag to which the taget refers and typset that? There must be something easier than a huge set of nested \doifelse calls, but I can't quite find what would be the best way.
>
> I hope this question isn't too confusing...

can you make me a small example file. i will fill in the bits for you then

Hans

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