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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/xml/xml-mkiv-introduction.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/xml/xml-mkiv-introduction.tex deleted file mode 100644 index e7f0124daab..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/xml/xml-mkiv-introduction.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -\environment xml-mkiv-style - -\startcomponent xml-mkiv-introduction - -\startchapter[title={Introduction}] - -This manual presents the \MKIV\ way of dealing with \XML. Although the -traditional \MKII\ streaming parser has a charming simplicity in its control, for -complex documents the tree based \MKIV\ method is more convenient. It is for this -reason that the old method has been removed from \MKIV. If you are familiar with -\XML\ processing in \MKII, then you will have noticed that the \MKII\ commands -have \type {XML} in their name. The \MKIV\ commands have a lowercase \type {xml} -in their names. That way there is no danger for confusion or a mixup. - -You may wonder why we do these manipulations in \TEX\ and not use \XSLT\ (or -other transformation methods) instead. The advantage of an integrated approach is -that it simplifies usage. Think of not only processing the document, but also -using \XML\ for managing resources in the same run. An \XSLT\ approach is just as -verbose (after all, you still need to produce \TEX\ code) and probably less -readable. In the case of \MKIV\ the integrated approach is also faster and gives -us the option to manipulate content at runtime using \LUA. It has the additional -advantage that to some extend we can handle a mix of \TEX\ and \XML\ because we -know when we're doing one or the other. - -This manual is dedicated to Taco Hoekwater, one of the first \CONTEXT\ users, and -also the first to use it for processing \XML. Who could have thought at that time -that we would have a more convenient way of dealing with those angle brackets. -The second version for this manual is dedicated to Thomas Schmitz, a power user -who occasionally became victim of the evolving mechanisms. - -\blank - -\startlines -Hans Hagen -\PRAGMA -Hasselt NL -2008\endash2016 -\stoplines - -\stopchapter - -\stopcomponent |