Re: TEI - conTeXt

["Thomas Schmitz" <tschmit1@uni-bonn.de>]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:00:59 -0800
  Jon Crump <jjcrump@uw.edu> wrote:

Jon,

OK, good to know. I'll need a bit more leisure to look at 
your example; here are just a few points:

processing an attribute with the 'xml:' namespace has been 
fixed by Hans very recently (last weekend), so if you 
haven't updated to the latest beta version, please do and 
try again; your syntax \xmlsetsetup{#1}{div[@xml:id='a']} 
is basically right.

Addressing content that has been set in xml anchors is 
possible, but not quite easy. I wouldn't have been able to 
figure it out without Hans. Just to show you an example: 
here's code that in my TEI document will fetch the content 
of a witness list:

\xmlfirst{#1}{root::/TEI/text/front/div[@type=='sigla']/listWit/witness[@xml:id==string.sub('\xmlatt{#1}{wit}',2)]}

The (for you) relevant part is "root::/": this is the 
topmost level of your TEI xml document. You then traverse 
all the elements and drill down to a <witness> element 
whose xml:id attribute is identical to the "wit" attribute 
of your current element. So <element wit="#foo"> will pick 
up the content of <witness xml:id="foo">bar</witness> and 
print "bar." This should get you going.

Last point: I don't want to sound negative, but what 
you're attempting is not straightforward and certainly not 
easy stuff. I am currently planning on doing a long-term 
project on editing texts in this manner, and I'm quite 
optimistic that all problems can eventually be solved. But 
if you need short-term solutions, a perfectly typeset 
edition within a matter of weeks, this may not be possible 
right away. E.g., I don't think we really have a solid 
framework yet for a bilingual edition as you envisage it. 
It is possible, but not easy, Hans needs the time and many 
test cases to make the code work. There is a research 
group here in Germany (with public funding) who are 
currently working on xml printing of material of exactly 
this type. I can assure you that for the time being, 
there's nothing out there which comes even close to 
ConTeXt in this area, but we're still at the beginning. 
So: if you want to help and test and be part of this, you 
are more than welcome, but none of us has a magic bullet; 
this is work in progress, not drop-in solutions.

All best

Thomas
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