As far as XML authoring tools go, I use netbeans. It has syntax highlighting, DTD/XSD validation, DTD generation from XML and DTDdoc generation (could be useful for us).

In order to get PDF from JAMES xdocs, you will need to write a XSLT stylesheet that produces xsl:fo output. Cocoon can then run the transformation on the fly then pump the xsl:fo through fop to produce PDF.

As an alternative to Cocoon, you can just use fop directly to run the transformation and produce PDF. Incidentally, fop can also produce RTF and one or two other formats.

ADK

Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Alan,

That would be very cool!  :-)  Yes, the motivation between using XML is that
the ASF has a set of publishing tools for maintaining the web sites.  And
with a tool such as Cocoon, you can re-purpose it.

If you checkout the XML and look it over, I think you'll get the hang of it.
I don't know if there is any documentation for the DTD, but I just picked it
up from the other documents.  And I just use my standard editor
(www.lugaru.com).

	--- Noel


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