Re: Using command line values in a TeX document; writing a script?

[Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>]

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> On 15 Apr 2020, at 13:54, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gerben Wierda schrieb am 15.04.2020 um 12:19:
>>> On 14 Apr 2020, at 11:52, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>>> On 14 Apr 2020, at 11:25, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> This helps for adding information to my processing.
>>>> 
>>>> What I was also looking for is that I don’t have a test.tex anymore, just the XML file I am parsing and a command line action.
>>>> 
>>>> So, I use mtxrun, give it the name of an XML. lua code (using a ’script’ somewhere?) reads the XML, extracts a name (e.g. ‘foo’) from it, creates a .tex file (e.g. ‘foo.tex’), produces a .pdf file from that .tex file (e.g. ‘foo.pdf').
>>> When processing XML, I normally use
>>> 
>>>   context —environment=whatever.tex file.xml
>>> 
>>> with whatever.tex being a mix of tex and lua to setup and process the XML directly,
>>> perhaps including other XML files as needed.
>> But this means that the whatever.tex file needs to exist beforehand and the result is whatever.pdf
>> 
>> I want the actual PDF to be produced have a name that comes from the XML I am processing and thus the whatever.tex file be created by lua. There is no whatever.tex file before I run the command.
>> 
>> Pre-command:
>> 	XML:
>> 		contains file name “foo”
>> 	there is no .tex file
>> 
>> Command:
>> 	produces foo.tex (gets the name from the XML) and “foo.pdf"
> 
> The TeX file in Tacos example contains the xmlsetup entries which are used
> to map the XML tags to ConTeXt commands and environment, the resulting
> PDF file has the same name as the XML file.

That is different from

	 the resulting PDF file has the name of an entry/field in the XML file.

So, what I am looking for is:

	command foo.xml

which results in 

	bar.pdf

where ‘bar’ is text in foo.xml

G

> 
> Wolfgang
> 


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