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Re: [docbook-apps] is docbook the right tool for the job?

From: Ramon Casellas <casellas at infres dot enst dot fr>
To: Nikolai Grigoriev <grig at renderx dot com>
Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:25:05 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] is docbook the right tool for the job?
References: <200309040806.h8486a1g015456@adat.davidashen.net><01be01c372bd$c30efa70$5f02a8c0@africa>


> >
> > A sequence of custom steps that transform the retrieved data into 
> > XSL FO would do better.
> >
> >  DBMS->XML->XSL FO->PDF
> 
> To complement David's answer, I dare add one more piece between 
> XML and PDF:
> 
>   DBMS -> XML -> XSL FO+SVG -> PDF

To complement Nikolai's complement...
    
    DBMS -> XML -> DB2LaTeX(XSL) -> PDF (pdflatex)

You may want to "embed" LaTeX code using <alt role="tex", and you have 
basically two customization layers 1) xsl 2) sty/cls files.


Regards,
R. 

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