On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 10-11-2010 12:22, Peter Davis wrote: > >> Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, >> with >> ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or >> more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent >> information. >> >> I'm trying to find the most direct route from XSL-FO to PS or PDF. I'll be >> generating hundreds or thousands of XSL-FO documents, and would like to >> process them. >> > > there was never much interest in FO and usually such code only gets better > when it's used; I have it on my todo list to rewrite the mkii specific FO > processing code in mkiv as it can be done more efficient etc etc but there > is not that much incentive ... in projects that I'm involved in we normally > go directly from xml to pdf simply because it's faster, gives better results > and takes less coding than going the fo-route; and as FO is not that much > fun, I'd either need a project or see it as a challenge (btw, it's not that > big a deal to rewrite the mkii code to mkiv) > > Hans >
Thanks, Hans. I can certainly understand that FO has not gotten much attention. In our case, though, this is the XML format we're starting with. It's not a matter of converting other xml to FO. I'd be happy to look at the mkii code, but considering that I'm brand spanking new to ConTeXt, I don't expect to make any great strides there for a while. Is it possible to put a setup inside an xmlsetup? For example, if the xml specifies a page size, can I put a setup for that inside the xmlsetup that handles that element? Thank you, -pd
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