Well, in that case it might depend on the exact file. I have to admit I’ve never stumpled upon something similar, and more setups are also not trivial.
But maybe something to consider: in my xmlsetups I match against some node from the xml document (maybe the root or maybe a body – it depends on the source document structure of course) and translate that into a proper starttext…stoptext structure.
Also, I usually split my setups in at least two files: one deals with the structure, the other with layout information.
So: context myfile.xml --environments=styles,mapping
mapping.tex will contain all the information to build a valid context document from the xml source (that means including \starttext … \stoptext etc.)
styles.tex will deal with fonts, page setups etc.
Also consider this older thread and Wolfgang’s response there: https://lists.contextgarden.net/archives/list/ntg-context@ntg.nl/thread/ZLEP...
Best,
Denis
Von: Duncan Hothersall
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2025 11:55
An: denismaier@mailbox.org
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users
Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Re: Passing the name of an XML file to process via the command line
I had tested using a MWE but in reality I have a rather involved set of XML setups with some lua code inclusions and multi-language handling bits and when I ran that as an environment without the explicit \starttext \xmlprocessfile{...}{\inputfilename}{} \stoptext, while some parts did work (fonts, colours, language switches) some of the page layout information was lost. When I added the \starttext \xmlprocessfile{...}{\inputfilename}{} \stoptext back in, it worked properly.
I'm not sure exactly which bits "fell out" but something definitely did. But the explicit calling as above fixed it.
Duncan
On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 at 10:46, < mailto:denismaier@mailbox.org denismaier@mailbox.org> wrote:
What do you mean by this?
Von: Duncan Hothersall < mailto:dh@capdm.com dh@capdm.com>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2025 10:50
An: mailing list for ConTeXt users < mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: Passing the name of an XML file to process via the command line
Just coming back to this to say after further testing, for anyone copying in future, actually you can lose some of your setups if you just strip the \starttext \xmlprocessfile ... \stoptext from the environment file completely. Wolfgang's original recipe solves that problem.
On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 19:51, Duncan Hothersall < mailto:dh@capdm.com dh@capdm.com> wrote:
Thanks both. I stripped out the \starttext \xmlprocessfile ... \stoptext from my tex file and just used the command line invocation as suggested and it worked perfectly. So I've learned two things for the price of one!
Thanks again.
Duncan
On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 17:34, Denis Maier via ntg-context < mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
Do you actually need
\xmlprocessfile{...}{\inputfilename}{}
?
I just use
context --environment=mytexfile myxmlfile.xml
and it works just fine.
Wolfgang Schuster mailto:wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com > hat am 30.06.2025 18:21 CEST geschrieben:
Am 30.06.2025 um 17:59 schrieb Duncan Hothersall:
Hello list. I feel this should be an easy question to answer but I
couldn't find a hint.
I have a ConTeXt file which pulls in an XML file for processing using
the command
\xmlprocessfile{mydomain}{myXMLfile.xml}{}
I would like instead to call context with the XML file name in the
command line (so that I can use the same ConTeXt setups on multiple XML
sources).
How can I do that?
\xmlprocessfile{...}{\inputfilename}{}
and process it with
context --environment=mytexfile myxmlfile.xml
Wolfgang
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