Re: Custom XML Export

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 9/12/2015 1:37 PM, Toby Miller wrote:
> 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.

\setupbackend[export=yes]
\setupexport[properties=yes]

\starttext
      \startelement[test][this=that]whatever\stopelement
\stoptext

arbitrary empty elements are tricky as there is no content then, so that 
needs thinking

(you can of course abuse \startelement

\startelement[br]x\stopelement

and then remove the x from the exported xml. I'll think about it (no 
time now).

Hans


> 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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