Re: XML roundtripping

[Denis Maier <maier.de@gmail.com>]

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Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> schrieb am Mi., 15. Mai 2019, 18:32:

> On 5/15/2019 4:35 PM, Denis Maier wrote:
> > Our workflow is not settled yet; we're still discussing options. All
> > depends upon what is possible ...
> >
> > That being said, for the purpose of displaying the articles online we'll
> > need every article in a separate XML file. The question is if and how we
> > will produce a PDF version containing a whole volume (we'll probably
> > need one PDF for the whole volume and also PDFs for each article).
> >
> > One option would be:
> > - merge the articles into a single XML,
> > - typeset from there
> > - split the PDF
> > (Hence my question here,
> > https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2019/095011.html).
>
> you can create a master xml file with includes and process the lots in
> one go ... this is quite convenient when you assemble for instance books
> from chapters that are split into sections ... you can make a xml file
> per chapter that includes the sections and then a book file that loads
> them all ... files can have a processing instruction telling what styel
> to load and you can run individual files or assemblies ... all the stuff
> needed to do that is there (and probably also documented someplace)
>

Ok. Sounds good. How can I call the style in the xml files? I know that I
can process a file with \xmlprocessfile or call it from the command line
with --env=, and in a normal tex-file I could obviously use \environment
for this,  but how does this work with xml?



> anyway, you can always save '\lastpage' during a run ... or you can have
> some shared lua file with chapters/pagenumbers that gets updated by the
> current run
>
> all this is workflow dependent but all can be done without too much hassle
>
> (fwiw: we have some cases where for one projects hundreds of xml files
> get merged runtime and then processed ... the overhead is neglectable to
> the run)
>
> > Another option could be:
> > - Typeset each article individually.
> > - Get the last page number => in the next article, set the first page
> > number to this + 1
> > (So, we do not necessarily need to write the page numbers back to the
> > XML, but we'll somehow need to pass the page number to the next article
> > in the chain.)
> >
> >
> > Am Mi., 15. Mai 2019 um 14:46 Uhr schrieb Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl
> > <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>>:
> >
> >     On 5/15/2019 12:57 PM, Denis Maier wrote:
> >      > Hmm, getting the page number back from the tuc file sound
> >     feasible. I'll
> >      > have to look into this.
> >      >
> >      > But how would I write the information back to the XML? Is this
> >     explained
> >      > somewhere?
> >     all depends on the workflow ... why does it need to be written back?
> >
> >
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