same problem again and again: outputting PDF

[Marco Marongiu]

Hello *

I am trying to find out which is the best way (in my special case) to produce PDF from XML documents[*]. I am running AxKit 1.5 on a Debian "Woody"

I don't know any XSLT and XSLFO. The whole site uses XPathScript stylesheets. The XML->HTML transformation work just well now.

Now I would like to produce PDF files. Unfortunately, Apache::AxKit::Language::PassiveTeX is undocumented. I downloaded the passivetex.zip file from its home site and had a look yesterday night, but I didn't see any light.

I took a look to Matt's PDFLib module, and I had to give up -excellent job but too complex for my needs[2].

Now, I am considering that a way could be to produce a LaTeX source and had it compiled to pdf on the fly somehow... the point is: in your opinion what's the best way?

Thanks for any help you can send here!

--bronto

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Footnotes:

[*] Documents are mainly technical manuals; the aren't in *any* standard format. We had an old format (that is going to disappear in the next few months) and a new one, designed to be complete enough to write technical articles but simple enough for a System Administrator with no XML experience to write (with some help by XEmacs' XML support).

[2] I also spent some time googleing around, and some other digging in this mailing list's archive, but either no previous solution seemed to apply to my case, or it wasn't documented enough.

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