Re: Custom XML Export

[Toby Miller <tobycmiller@gmail.com>]

Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for.

I have a few other things I'd like to be able to do with this kind of
thing (print '<br />' self-closed tags for example, and add attributes
as you say), but I feel bad about posting to the list for them. Is there
any documentation for these features at all? I couldn't find any
reference to the \startelement command when I looked, but perhaps I'm
looking in the wrong place.

I'll take your advice and not try to adapt the export system. Now that I
can print tags at least I think XML transformation should be able to
deal with everything I need if it comes to it.

Toby

On 12/09/15 10:53, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 9/11/2015 4:21 PM, Toby Miller wrote:
>> I'm using ConTeXt's export to XML feature, but I'd like more control
>> over the XML output. Is there a way to define a TeX command that will
>> output a specific tag (<tag>content</tag>) around some text in the
>> output?
>
> \setupbackend[export=yes]
>
> \definehighlight[this]
>
> \starttext
>     \startelement[what]
>          \this{that}  \input ward
>     \stopelement
> \stoptext
>
> (there are also ways to add extra properties)
>
>> Ideally I'd like to write a completely custom XML printer; it would be
>> very simple, but would allow me to define what tags I want for different
>> things. Is there a way to change the behaviour of the existing one, or
>> could you recommend a starting point for writing a new one?
>
> the export resembles the structure used in the source and making each
> aspect configurable not only adds much overhead but is also kind of
> useless as one can easily transform xml into other xml; it's no
> problem to add a few more details here or there , but th emain indea
> behind the export is to have standardized and predictable output that
> then can be either rendered using css or converted (for that the raw
> file is best).
>
> Hans
>
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