Hi, I'm trying to glue MkIV XML handling to ConTeXt's tabulation. My markup has a HTML-style table model, with an arbitary number of <col> elements. My problem is to produce the |c|c|c|c| format based on the number of <col> elements I have, rather than hardcoding a specific number of columns. I thought I could do something like this, but unfortunately the string produced by \xmlconcat{#1}{col}{\|} seems to be ignored: % in practice this would produce various alignments, not just "c" \startxmlsetups xml:col c \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:table \starttabulate[\|\xmlconcat{#1}{col}{\|}\|] \xmlall{#1}{thead|tbody} \stoptabulate \stopxmlsetups Whereas this works fine, as I'd expect: \starttabulate[|c|c|c|c|] (I'm also confused about the escaping for \| there. I guess the [] is a special environment, with | being given a different catcode, perhaps?) Is there a way to do this, with the number of columns and their alignment generated from the input XML? Thanks, -- Kate
I have done some things with html-xml. Perhaps looking into the following ConTeXt code will help you to find how to do things. Hope it helps.
Hans van der Meer
On 19 jan. 2014, at 11:53, Kate F
Hi,
I'm trying to glue MkIV XML handling to ConTeXt's tabulation. My markup has a HTML-style table model, with an arbitary number of <col> elements.
My problem is to produce the |c|c|c|c| format based on the number of <col> elements I have, rather than hardcoding a specific number of columns.
I thought I could do something like this, but unfortunately the string produced by \xmlconcat{#1}{col}{\|} seems to be ignored:
% in practice this would produce various alignments, not just "c" \startxmlsetups xml:col c \stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:table \starttabulate[\|\xmlconcat{#1}{col}{\|}\|] \xmlall{#1}{thead|tbody} \stoptabulate \stopxmlsetups
Whereas this works fine, as I'd expect: \starttabulate[|c|c|c|c|]
(I'm also confused about the escaping for \| there. I guess the [] is a special environment, with | being given a different catcode, perhaps?)
Is there a way to do this, with the number of columns and their alignment generated from the input XML?
Thanks,
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On 1/19/2014 11:53 AM, Kate F wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to glue MkIV XML handling to ConTeXt's tabulation. My markup has a HTML-style table model, with an arbitary number of <col> elements.
My problem is to produce the |c|c|c|c| format based on the number of <col> elements I have, rather than hardcoding a specific number of columns.
I thought I could do something like this, but unfortunately the string produced by \xmlconcat{#1}{col}{\|} seems to be ignored:
% in practice this would produce various alignments, not just "c" \startxmlsetups xml:col c \stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:table \starttabulate[\|\xmlconcat{#1}{col}{\|}\|] \xmlall{#1}{thead|tbody} \stoptabulate \stopxmlsetups
Whereas this works fine, as I'd expect: \starttabulate[|c|c|c|c|]
(I'm also confused about the escaping for \| there. I guess the [] is a special environment, with | being given a different catcode, perhaps?)
Is there a way to do this, with the number of columns and their alignment generated from the input XML?
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