On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

On 10-11-2010 12:22, Peter Davis wrote:

Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with
ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or
more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent
information.

I'm trying to find the most direct route from XSL-FO to PS or PDF. I'll be
generating hundreds or thousands of XSL-FO documents, and would like to
process them.

there was never much interest in FO and usually such code only gets better when it's used; I have it on my todo list to rewrite the mkii specific FO processing code in mkiv as it can be done more efficient etc etc but there is not that much incentive ... in projects that I'm involved in we normally go directly from xml to pdf simply because it's faster, gives better results and takes less coding than going the fo-route; and as FO is not that much fun, I'd either need a project or see it as a challenge (btw, it's not that big a deal to rewrite the mkii code to mkiv)

Hans

Thanks, Hans. I can certainly understand that FO has not gotten much attention. In our case, though, this is the XML format we're starting with. It's not a matter of converting other xml to FO. I'd be happy to look at the mkii code, but considering that I'm brand spanking new to ConTeXt, I don't expect to make any great strides there for a while.

Is it possible to put a setup inside an xmlsetup? For example, if the xml specifies a page size, can I put a setup for that inside the xmlsetup that handles that element?

Thank you,

-pd