[NTG-context] XML Namespaces and XML Setups

[Bruce Horrocks]

I haven't seen it explicitly documented - my cue to add it to the Wiki I guess!

I work with XML a fair bit and, IMHO, the WWW consortium docs do a very poor job of explaining namespaces because they make them seem much more complicated than they are. Essentially, a tag with a namespace identifier is just another tag i.e. treat all the characters, including the colon, as the tag name. Armed with that knowledge I just created a second tag definition in the sample code you posted.

> On 24 May 2022, at 09:50, Duncan Hothersall <dh at capdm.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, it does! Thanks Bruce. Is this documented somewhere already and I missed it?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Duncan
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 21:14, Bruce Horrocks <ntg at scorecrow.com> wrote:
> Does this help?
> 
> \startxmlsetups xml:demo:base
>   \xmlsetsetup{#1}{tag}{xml:demo:tag}
>   \xmlsetsetup{#1}{o:tag}{xml:demo:otag} %% <---
> \stopxmlsetups
> \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{xml:demo:base}
> \startxmlsetups xml:demo:tag
>   \xmlflush{#1}
> \stopxmlsetups
> \startxmlsetups xml:demo:otag   %% <---
>   {\bf \xmlflush{#1}}
> \stopxmlsetups
> \starttext
> \startbuffer[test]
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <root xmlns="NameSpaceA"
>       xmlns:o="NameSpaceO">
>   <tag>text</tag> <o:tag>text</o:tag>
> </root>
> \stopbuffer
> \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{test}{}
> \stoptext
> 
> > On 23 May 2022, at 09:07, Duncan Hothersall via ntg-context <ntg-context at ntg.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > I found this unanswered question on the list from November 2020 and find today that I have the same question. How can one handle elements with the same name but in different namespaces? How should the different \startxmlsetups commands be written?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Duncan
> > 
> > On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 13:37, Christoph Reller <christoph.reller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear List,
> > 
> > Consider the following MWE:
> > 
> > \startxmlsetups xml:demo:base
> >   \xmlsetsetup{#1}{tag}{xml:demo:tag}
> > \stopxmlsetups
> > \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{xml:demo:base}
> > \startxmlsetups xml:demo:tag
> >   %\doif{\xmlnamespace{#1}}{o}{NameSpaceO:}
> >   \xmlflush{#1}
> > \stopxmlsetups
> > \starttext
> > \startbuffer[test]
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <root xmlns="NameSpaceA"
> >       xmlns:o="NameSpaceO">
> >   <tag>text</tag> <o:tag>text</o:tag>
> > </root>
> > \stopbuffer
> > \xmlprocessbuffer{demo}{test}{}
> > \stoptext
> > 
> > My questions:
> > - Is there a good way to have a separate XML setup for each XML namespace?
> > - Alternatively, one has to do the distinction within the same XML setup. In this case, how do we get the complete namespace? (In this example: "NameSpaceA" and "NameSpaceO")
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> > 
> > Cheers, Christoph

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Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK