Re: [NTG-context] TeX in \xmlsetentity and DTDs in DOCTYPEs

On 18 January 2016 at 19:13, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 1/18/2016 5:22 PM, Kate F wrote:

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On 18 January 2016 at 13:30, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

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On 01/17/2016 07:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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it should work in the in beta now

Hi Hans,

now I have a problem :-) What should take precedence if an entity is both defined in the dtd and as a \xmltexentity? The way I see it, the latter: e.g., in the DTD, I might declare something for use in a browser but require a different solution when typesetting with ConTeXt. The latest and greatest now takes my DTD definitions instead of the \xmltexentities, which did not happen before. Is that an unwanted side effect or the new default?

Ah, there's a bug:

<!ENTITY i.opt "<option>-i</option>">

This should produce an <option> node in the DOM tree, just as if you'd typed that out where the entity is used. Currently ConTeXt takes that as literal text, as if you'd typed "<option>-i<option/>"

Often I wish XML weren't so complex...

are you sure? i've never seen that

Hans

Yep! These are called "internal parsed entities". "Parsed" requires that any tags *inside* the entity must be balanced, unlike in SGML entities. Sorry I can't find a clear explanation in the XML spec; it's a pretty confusing document. But here's some random person's slide illustrating an example: http://images.slideplayer.com/23/6622270/slides/slide_47.jpg libxml2 deals with these correctly, which is what I've been using (xsltproc and friends) for my documents which use them. I generally trust libxml2 to get things right. I use these entities to centralise often-repeated fragments between documents, kind of like how you might use a primitive macro in TeX. So for example in one external DTD I have some general things: <!ENTITY macro.arg "<replaceable>macro</replaceable>"> <!ENTITY equal.lit "<literal>=</literal>"> And then in one specific document's internal entities, something which uses them: <!ENTITY D2.opt "<option>-D</option>¯o.arg;&equal.lit;<replaceable>defn</replaceable>"> Then if I change my mind about how I want to mark up "=", for example, I only have one place to change it. This makes life with XML a little bit less painful. -- Kate