Re: Context to XML

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:23 PM 6/9/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>I understand that Pragma is working on the job of making XML coded documents
>work under Context. However XML does not have ways of showing refinements
>such as hanging punctuation etc. AFAIK.
>So I have two questions:
>
>Is there a reverse path from Context to XML encoding?

Here we code in both very structured tex and xml; in principle there is not 
much difference (the tex/xml choice mainly depends on teh editing process)

>Is the loss of detail in this reverse path so great so as to make the use
>of fine typesetting useless?

there should be no loss, take for instance hanging punctuation: that is not 
coded at all, you just enable it in the style (which is still tex)

>There are databases of published documents that require conversion to
>XML, hence my questions.

As long as you code quote / quotation / compound words / par (begin)ends 
and alike, you're pretty save

Hans
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