On 11/14/2022 7:28 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:

On 11/14/22 14:00, Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi,

most examples in the mkiv-xml manual use #1 with \xmlsetsetup, e.g.

\startxmlsetups xml:demo:base   \xmlsetsetup{#1}{document|section|p}{xml:demo:*} \stopxmlsetups

However, in quite a few occasions I’ve noticed the usage of \xmldocument instead of #1.

What exactly is the difference ?

Hi Denis,

I have just found the following explanation (https://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xml-mkiv.pdf#search=xmlself):

The macro \xmldocument expands to the current document id. There is also \xmlself which expands to the current node number (#1 in setups).

Now I think that I have abused \xmldocument too much, since I should have used #1. But I’m afraid I haven’t got much different results.

I must also confess that a proper explanation would be helpful (to me in order) to understsand when \xmldocument should not be used. if you load a main xmkl file that is then xml document; there can be many xml files loaded at the same time (which you can then access bu {whatever} you used and once in the tree nodes are #1)

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