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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanitize &quot; in XML/XHTML documents
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:14:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B08F9D.7040400@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-0ca165d5-93e0-49e2-81d7-c56386684e89-1454409161605@3capp-gmx-bs53>

On 2/2/2016 11:32 AM, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope I don't just overlook some plain obvious solution, but a longer search in the Wiki and the mailing list (and the context source) didn't come up with anything too useful ....
>
> Anyway: is there any mechanism that I can use to "fix" quotations while typesetting XML documents?
> Pandoc produces &quot;some text&quot;. In TeX I would usually use \quotation{some text} to have proper, language dependent quotes.

To me that looks like a pandoc bug: how is a backend supposed to deal 
with left/right quotation marks?

> I tried to intercept &quot; using \xmltexentity{quot}{...} but apparently the internal replacement takes precedence here. Otherwise I would have tried to build some small state machine which remembers if it is currently inside a quotation of not.

quot lt gt amp are kind of system entities so not to be messed with

you could do a replacement: &quot; -> &myquot; and then 
\xmltexentity{myquot}{?} or \xmlsetentity{myquot}{?} depending on what 
gets done

> My next try would be to somehow intercept the XML stream (or flush) using lua and replace " ... " inline. However that all seems quite hacky.

even then you can have issues: what if you have nested and/or unbalanced 
quotes ...

> So, does ConTeXt currently offer anything I can piggyback to get quotations set properly? :-)

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-02 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02 10:32 Andreas Schneider
2016-02-02 11:14 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2016-02-02 12:44   ` Andreas Schneider
2016-02-02 12:19 ` massifr
2016-02-02 12:49   ` Andreas Schneider

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