[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt source from XML

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 6/4/2024 9:21 PM, Christoph Edenhauser wrote:
> Dear Pablo, dear list
> 
> That's great, thank you very much for your suggestion.
> That seems to me to be a very elegant solution to the next two problems 
> that were actually still ahead of me.
> 
> And now to my initial question, which I didn't specify precisely enough.
> 
> I have the following workflow in mind:
> 1. I have an XML file (TEI-XML),
> 2. then, following your brilliant suggestion, I will create an 
> xml-analyze-template.tex file and customise it.
> 3. As you suggest, now one would actually use
>      context --environment xml-analyze-template.tex file.xml
>      to typeset in a pdf file.
> But I would like to convert all the XML nodes into the ConTeXt 
> typesetting language, and then edit/correct the text and maybe some 
> structure in this *.tex file.
> 
> And here comes my question: Can I use context to convert my XML-file 
> 'file.xml' into a ConTeXt-file 'file.tex' instead of typesetting it as a 
> 'file.pdf'.

What do you want to tweak. HEre is the lowest level approach:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<whatever>
     <p>test 1</p>
     <?context-tex-directive start ?>
     <?context-tex-directive red   ?>
     <p>test 2</p>
     <?context-tex-directive stop ?>
     <p>test 3</p>
</whatever>

But quite some can be done when processing and there are mechanisms to 
inject e.g. page breaks using processing instruction. Probablyh not all 
is documented.

There is a xml-mkiv-tricks.tex file in the distribution (no pdf is seems 
so I need to add that one.)

Hans

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