Re: XML to PDF

>I'm looking for XSL to transform an XML document to a PDF file.  Can
anyone
>send to me working examples/approaches?  I'm particularly interested in
how
>paging is handled as well as "wide" reports with respect to large amounts
>of data that is tabular in nature, a bit less on table of contents and
>index.
I use a modified version of Norman Walsh XSL stylesheets to transform
Docbook XML documents to LaTeX and then pdflatex to create PDF files.

Disadvantages:
- one needs to get familiar with LaTeX (which of course not all people on
this list
  would consider as an disadvantage).
- handling of LaTeX special characters is a bit tricky, but possible.
- implementing all the features of a rather complicated DTD like Docbook is
not a trivial task

Advantages:
- as someone else mentioned, typesetting quality is high (once one gets the
LaTeX output right...)
- there is lot of LaTeX expertise out there (and on this list as well).

Gerhard



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