From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Separate layout and content XML files?
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:51:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTineskxCdwGNne8AeN5n3U7gLtS_=hS2EnXu+aNy@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1011112331070.10598@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Peter Davis wrote:
>
> I want to process documents from two separate XML files. One XML file
>> defines the layout of the page ... placement of text boxes, fonts to use
>> ...
>> even placeholder text. The other XML contains the actual content that
>> gets
>> placed into that layout.
>>
>
> You can generate the \setup commands (i.e. the preable) from the first XML
> file, and the main body of the document from the second XML file.
>
Thanks!
The layout XML would actually define a kind of boilerplate page, and then
various contents from the other XML would be inserted. The final document
might have a thousand pages, all based on the same boilerplate, but with
different contents inserted. So I'd need a mechanism for storing the
boilerplate so that for each element in the content XML, I could generate a
new page using the boilerplate plus the text from that element.
Is that clear? It's kind of like mail merge in a word processor. You might
get a few hundred or thousand copies of a letter, each for a different
recipient. So in essence, one XML contains the letter, and the other
contains the list of recipients, their addresses, etc.
Thank you.
-pd
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-12 4:30 Peter Davis
2010-11-12 4:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-11-12 12:51 ` Peter Davis [this message]
2010-11-12 12:55 ` Martin Schröder
2010-11-12 13:17 ` Peter Davis
2010-11-12 13:39 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-11-12 13:47 ` Peter Davis
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