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Re: [docbook] RE: Tools to generate pdf from docbook
- From: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>
- To: "Jeroen Alblas" <jeroena at infosupport dot com>, "thierry templier" <templth at yahoo dot fr>, <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:43:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: [docbook] RE: Tools to generate pdf from docbook
At 16:30 2003 04 17 +0200, Jeroen Alblas wrote:
>Hello Templth,
>
>There are several products you can try.
. . .
>Needless to say all these products produce PDF from XSL-FO. You need to transform DocBook to XSL-FO using a XSLT parser.
Actually, that's not needless to say. A "proper" XSL-FO
composition system takes the XML and XSL and produces
composed results.
Some quotes from the XSL spec [1]:
An XSL stylesheet processor accepts a document or data in XML
and an XSL stylesheet and produces the presentation of that XML
source content that was intended by the designer of that stylesheet.
. . .
In some implementations of XSL/XSLT, the result of tree construction
can be output as an XML document. This would allow an XML document which
contains formatting objects and formatting properties to be output. This
capability is neither necessary for an XSL processor nor is it encouraged.
paul
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice1.html#section-N629-Introduction-and-Overview
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