Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your advice.
I would like to have a system with which I can send letters to people in my
database.
It would be nice to be able to make selections according to labels (probably
with xmlatt), but that can be done later.
I am not a programmer - when I read the documentation, I do not understand
enough of it to the extent to port it to a new program, but I can adapt and try
existing code.
Thusfar I have been trying to use the letter module with the xmltext and
xmlflush commands. What can be done to make this work?
Thanks!
Robert
\usemodule[letter]
\startbuffer[participants]
<contacts>
<contact class='participant' label='Hendriks'>
<formalname>Hendriks</formalname>
<informalname>Karel</informalname>
<prefix>mr.</prefix>
<initials>K.</initials>
<courselevel>levelA</courselevel>
<coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate>
<city>Arnhem</city>
<address>
<p>Mr. K. Hendriks</p>
<p>Grotestraat 5</p>
<p>1234 Arnhem</p>
</address>
</contact>
<contact class='participant' label='Janssen'>
<formalname>Janssen</formalname>
<informalname>Piet</informalname>
<initials>P.</initials>
<prefix>mr.</prefix>
<courselevel>levelA</courselevel>
<coursedate>1 june 2017</coursedate>
<city>Nijmegen</city>
<address>
<p>Mr. P. Janssen</p>
<p>Kortestraat 8</p>
<p>1234 Nijmegen</p>
</address>
</contact>
</contacts>
\stopbuffer
\startxmlsetups xml:setups
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{contacts|contact|address|prefix}{xml:*}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregistersetup{xml:setups}
\startxmlsetups xml:contacts
\xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:contact
%\setupletter[
% name={Sender},
% email={},
% signature={X}]
\startletter
[opening={Dear \xmltext{#1}{/prefix} \xmltext{#1}{/formalname},},
closing={Kind regards,},
signature={X},
toaddress={\xmltext{#1}{/address}},
subject={Interesting offer}]
\input knuth
%\xmltext{#1}{/informalname}
%Without the letter instructions, the code yields the names in informalname.
\stopletter
\stopxmlsetups
\starttext
\xmlprocessbuffer{main}{participants}{}
\stoptext
tex error on line 17 in file
/Users/mac/Documents/doc/moperspectief/brieven/brieven2mkiv.tex: ! Use of
\correspondence_start_parameters doesn't match its definition
\doifelsenextoptional ...\def \m_syst_action_yes {
#1}\def \m_syst_action_nop...
\setupletter ...bleargument \correspondence_setup
[\v!letter ]
\14>:xml:contact #1->\setupletter
[name={Sender},email={},signature={X}]\def...
l.17 }
\14>:xml:contacts #1->\xmlflush {#1}
l.7 }
'
> Op 15 jun. 2017, om 19:02 heeft Thomas A. Schmitz
> <thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de> het volgende geschreven:
>
> On 06/15/2017 10:51 AM, r.erm...@hccnet.nl wrote:
>> I still cannot generate letters from my xml database
>
> So what are you missing? Make a complete minimal example (you can pack the
> xml part into a buffer and then use \xmlprocessbuffer), then people will try
> to help you. Right now, we can't even guess where your problems lie. And
> writing "I'm not a programmer, so I can't read documentation" is not very
> motivating - you've been told where to begin, and you appear to be making
> some progress, so show us what you have.
>
> Thomas
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