On 2-6-2011 7:17, Bruce wrote:
Hans Hagen<pragma<at> wxs.nl> writes:
On 2-6-2011 12:53, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Many thanks for your reply! I would certainly go this way having a
couple of months or a year perspective. Besides I'm eager to try
finally the new way mkIV deals with xml. But realistically, preparing
and testing a mapping of even a subset of DocBook is a question of at
least a couple of personmonths if not worse. Sadly, I'm not in a
position to that now.
Months? I never had a reason for doing a docbook mapping but a couple of
hours should get you a start. Th eonly reason why I'd look into docbook
is if I'd need in in a project. (I'd happily spent a few well paid
months on it then.)
You probably don't need all of docbook, so you could start with some
simple tests. The mkii docbook stuff you mentioned definitely is doing a
small subset.
I never understand why you would try to typeset XML directly in ConTeXt?
Why not just convert the DocBook to ConTeXt source using XSLT (or if the
docs are simpler, use markdown with pandoc and you can easily get ConTeXt
and HTML from the same source)?
(1) because xslt mappings can become pretty unreadable
(2) because you still need to make a file (and define environments)
(3) because it then create another depencency and intermediate
processing stage
(4) because sometimes it makes sense to let the typesetting engine make
decisions
(5) because in mkiv one can apply lua functions to xml content
(6) ...
anyhow, the whole idea of xml is that it can be processed by whatever
machinery (and using xslt and/or xsl-fo for everything kin dof
contradicts that)
Hans
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