On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:18:22 +0100 Thomas Schrader wrote:

Hi everybody,

would you please put this right, if I'm mistaken.

Isn't ConTeXt capable to typeset XML? And isn't it really simple to make XHTML from HTML?

In theory, yes :-), practically it can be a huge effort.

So, is there any obstacle against using ConTeXt as customizable quality-typesetting backend for (readjusted/simplyfied) (X)HTML pages? What about power/complexity? How to style output?

I think pdf from xhtml is a very good usecase for context. Although I wouldn't think to do it directly, but transform the xhtml somewhat to a context friendly xml. If you generate modern xhtml on your site, you will have most of the styling in css files and have mostly structural information in the xhtml. A tool can decide with the help of the css definitions in the tags which layout macros it should use. On the other side I do not think, that this approach is the equivilant to the print function of the modern browsers. __Janko Hauser