Re: Custom XML Export

[Toby Miller <tobycmiller@gmail.com>]

On 12/09/15 13:00, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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

Makes sense! I think I have what I need for the moment; thanks for your
help.

Toby

>
>
>> 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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