Re: DocBook in ConTeXt - any new ideas?

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "R. Ermers" <r.ermers@hccnet.nl>
Subject: Re: DocBook in ConTeXt - any new ideas?
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:06:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE9F5AB.2090500@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90557B77-F070-48E0-90B7-6E180ED8A09A@hccnet.nl>

On 4-6-2011 10:21, R. Ermers wrote:

> Adding the prefix cals: to the tag names (thus making the file invalid, which is contrary to the docbook philosophy), using the cals table module and the directives is not enough, at least the cals tables in my valid xml docbook document were never typeset.

can be any prefix (namespace) ... the code that implements it uses a 
namespace in order to avoid a mixup

> With help from Aditya I managed to typeset a document which contains merely a cals table. I then thought this was going to be the first step to processing my xml file which contains a number of tables. But alas ....
>
> The tables in my document were skipped like any other unknown xml tag. I must have done something wrong. But what? There were no replies to my postings. In the end I felt silly for daring to posing a problem other people apparently had no problems with whatsoever.

well, providing solutions for specific user cases depends on available 
time etc ... even making a simple example ...

> So, if you should embark on this track, be aware that typesetting xml is more complicated than a ConTeXt document, that the knowledge about it is not widespread yet, that you rely on the happy few who do know, and it may take a lot of time to find out things yourself.

sure, and eventually it will be covered by manuals (or test files in the 
test suite -- actually there are some xml ones in there) ... there's 
only so much you can expect for a free system so some patience is needed

ps. although a lot of help can be gotten from this list, the wiki etc, 
users who want to do complex things (or workflows) cannot expect all 
their problems to be solved here as we all have jobs to fulfill ... it 
might help to make wiki pages and let others fill in the gaps

Hans

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