Re: [NTG-context] context export

On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Manfred Lotz wrote:

Hi Hans,

On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:23:37 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

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Hi Manfred,

some reading ... it should not be to hard to map the xml onto html ... relevant details are in attributes

Hmm, but I would need to have a dtd or schema file in order write a transformation (xslt or so) to html.

No. I think that Hans meant that you should be able to generate an html document directly out of context (instead of the xml document that is currently generated).

The other possibility would be to make the html creation an iterative process along the creation of the context document. I'd would prefer the first possibility, though.

Another possibility is to just write html (rather xhtml) and process it directly in ConTeXt. See the XML manual and Thomas's MyWay on processing XHML.

Instead of using xslt I also could code the transformation in Lua. What xml lib do you recommend to use in Lua?

I don't know about the lua librarties.

Currently, I have no time to code the xml --> htmp conversion.

In the long run, if you want multiple formats for a document that is slightly complicated, translating the input to xml is the easiest solution.

However, considering above ideas I could start with markdown as discussed in the other thread which has limitations but gives me a context source for free as a starting point.

You can also consider richer ascii markups: rst and asciidoc. Unfortunately, pandoc only has partial support for rst, and the default tools for rst and asciidoc do not export to context. Aditya