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Re: XML to PDF
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: XML to PDF
- From: "Juan R. Migoya" <promo804 at hsoft dot es>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:08:01 +0200
- Cc: Shawn Willden <shawn at willden dot org>
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- References: <3BB0E2B3.5030108@willden.org>
Yes, you can use Jade and DSSSL. Just include the "xml.dcl" before the name of
your
sgml file.
Regards,
Juan R. Migoya
Shawn Willden wrote:
> I have some XML documents that I want to transform into PDF files (among
> other formats). I have written an XSLT stylesheet that transforms them
> into DocBook, since that seems like a very nice intermediate format that
> I can use to produce a wide variety of outputs.
>
> I had thought that a process like the following would work:
>
> XML(my DTD) -> XML (DocBook) -> XML (FO) -> PDF
>
> Using XT and appropriate XSLT stylesheets for the first two translations
> and the Apache FOP tool for the third.
>
> However, I'm having a hard time because the XSL tools don't seem to work
> (particularly FOP, plus I get some odd errors when applying Norman
> Walsh's XSLT stylesheets to translate to FO). So, I looked into using
> the SGML tools instead, using the DSSSL stylesheets. However, Jade
> doesn't like taking my XML as input (for example, it doesn't like <TOC/>).
>
[snip]
> Shawn.
>
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