XML Documentation

Introduction

Handling XML in ConTeXt has improved dramatically with the advent of MkIV. The new Lua–based infrastructure makes typesetting, manipulating, filtering, and reusing XML much much easier than before.

Unfortunately, this also means that most of the existing documentation is now obsolete.

In general, old MkII code includes the uppercase XML string in its commands (as in \getXMLcode[name]), while new MkIV code uses lowercase xml (as in \xmlflush{#1}).

Documents about XML in MkIV

General Information

• Dealing with XML in ConTEXt MkIV: the official manual that explains everything. Too hard to be a good starting point (unless you are confident [or at least familiar] with XPath).
• MathML in MkIV: also official document to math typesetting with XML sources.
• TEI XMLl: example of TEI–encoded source typeset with ConTeXt.
• DocBook: example of how to typeset DocBook sources with help of a ConTeXt module.
• Formatting XML Objects: not (yet?) available for MkIV.
• Verbatim in XML: how to typeset XML sources verbatim in final text.
• Processing XML tables as Extreme Tables: example about XML tables as ConTeXt tables (extreme or natural).
• XHTML in MkIV: Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source, by Thomas Schmitz.
• Processing of Ctx XML files

Processing XML with lua

• XML in Lua (manipulating XML in Lua)

XHTML in MKIV

• Thomas’ My Way on processing XHTML with MKIV: Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source (already mentioned).

Documents about XML in MkII (obsolete)

XML/ConTeXt in general

• XML in ConTeXt by Hans Hagen and Ton Otten (2001)
• Docbook In ConTEXt, a ConTEXt XML Mapping for DocBook Documents by Simon Pepping
• ConTeXt–XML by Paul Tremblay
• Dealing with XML by Hans Hagen (about XML, XSLT and typesetting without TeX code)
• XML Basics: Mixing XML and ConTeXt using the pre-defined ContML vocabulary

Additions and Details of XML/ConTeXt

• Figures (XML image databases) (screen) by Pragma (2001); see Image Database
• Two pass tag processing example (float and figure tags)
• Steps (XML step charts) (screen) by Pragma (2001)
• XML DIR (directory and file access) by Pragma
• Interface.rnc, the Relax NG schema of texshow-web
• Preprocessing Source Files / Manipulating Graphic Resources by Pragma
  • a simple .ctx example of processing xml files
• Serial Letters (using a XML database) by Pragma (2003)

eXaMpLe framework

(batch processing)

• Example Interface (empty)
• Example GUI
• Eximple Toolkit (simple subset of Example)

MathML

• MathML Intro presentation by Pragma
• MathML manual by Pragma (2001)
• MathML in ConTeXt by Pragma (2001)
• MathML support (screen) by Pragma (2001)
• ChemML (MathML extension for chemistry) (screen) by Pragma
• PhysML (MathML extension for physics) (screen) by Pragma

XSL/FO

• XSL/FO: Formatting Objects
• ConTeXt FO and XML is a tutorial with a view to presenting ConTeXt from the XSL-FO mindset.