Paul Tremblay wrote:
But my unerstanding is that the mapping technique does not take care of white space. So if I have:
<p>Some paragrah in XmL
with
space </p>
This could get converted as:
Some paragrah in XmL
with
space \par
Which would produce 3 paragrahs.
I remember DocBook In Context customization in 2002.... I still think that XML (but not XSL formatting object ) better describe structure rather than presentation (ConTexT it useful for structure AND presentation). For example,spaces inside a xml are dangerous: how can I transform them ? Do I use a newline, a kern , a skip with glue, a space '\ ', a space ' ', a \blank... ? With what amount ? I still think that (xml structure / TeX presentation) is better than (xml structure / xml presentation); TeX is a typographical programming language, maybe not so easy, but ConTeXt is an excellent high-level layer: XML is not a programming language, and has not any typographics issues (XSL FO apart: but I consider it not so good as TeX). By the way, I still think that for stickers (a relative simple tipographical document) an xml layer is really useful and I moving into this directions for my future works; but just typesetting a simple book with (xml structure / xml presentation) seem to me an unnecessary complication. luigi