CALS to Formex 4 converter

New in version 0.5.0.

class benker.converters.cals2formex.Cals2FormexConverter

Bases: benker.converters.base_converter.BaseConverter

CALS to Formex 4 converter

builder_cls

alias of benker.builders.formex.FormexBuilder

parser_cls

alias of benker.parsers.cals.CalsParser

benker.converters.cals2formex.convert_cals2formex(src_xml, dst_xml, **options)

Convert CALS 4 tables to Formex tables.

Parameters:

• src_xml (str) – Source path of the XML file to convert.
• dst_xml (str) – Destination path of the XML file to produce.
• options –

  Dictionary of parsing/building options.

  Common parsing options:

  encoding (default: “utf-8”):

  XML encoding of the destination file.

  CALS parser options:

  cals_ns (default None):

  Namespace to use for CALS elements and attributes parsing. Set None (or “”) if you don’t use namespace in your XML.

  width_unit (default: “mm”):

  Unit to use for table/column widths. Possible values are: ‘cm’, ‘dm’, ‘ft’, ‘in’, ‘m’, ‘mm’, ‘pc’, ‘pt’, ‘px’.

  Formex 4 builder options:

  use_cals (default: False):

  Generate additional CALS-like elements and attributes to simplify the layout of Formex document in typesetting systems.

  cals_ns (default: “https://lib.benker.com/schemas/cals.xsd”):

  Namespace to use for CALS-like elements and attributes (requires: use_cals). Set None (or “”) if you don’t want to use namespace.

  cals_prefix (default: “cals”):

  Namespace prefix to use for CALS-like elements and attributes (requires: use_cals).

  width_unit (default: “mm”):

  Unit to use for table/column widths (requires: use_cals). Possible values are: ‘cm’, ‘dm’, ‘ft’, ‘in’, ‘m’, ‘mm’, ‘pc’, ‘pt’, ‘px’.