Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Davis
Hi, Renaud, In a nutshell, my use is a form of database publishing from two XML files. The first file is *like* XSL-FO, but also contains some namespaced constructs. This XML file is the page template ... it represents the layout, the static portions of the page, and the locations where va

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-14 Thread Renaud AUBIN
XSLT is fully adapted to XML/XML(fo or other target schema) since it was the design basis… My experience is: − good xslt is (relatively) easy to design as soon as you master the underlying data model − xsltproc is REALLY REALLY fast for xslt 1 processing − if you want something smarter, go for jav

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Davis
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 13-11-2010 4:14, Peter Davis wrote: > >> >> On 11/13/10 6:03 AM, Renaud AUBIN wrote: >> >>> Uh ? Give FOP a try… http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/index.html >>> Could you describe your target chain ? XML → FO → PDF ? >>> >> >> Actually,

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-11-2010 4:14, Peter Davis wrote: On 11/13/10 6:03 AM, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Uh ? Give FOP a try… http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/index.html Could you describe your target chain ? XML → FO → PDF ? Actually, I could write some XSLT to convert the XSL-FO into TeX or ConTeXt. But I was

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-13 Thread Peter Davis
On 11/13/10 6:03 AM, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Uh ? Give FOP a try… http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/index.html Could you describe your target chain ? XML → FO → PDF ? Actually, I could write some XSLT to convert the XSL-FO into TeX or ConTeXt. But I was thinking it might be beneficial to us

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-13 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Uh ? Give FOP a try… http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/index.html Could you describe your target chain ? XML → FO → PDF ? Renaud Le 10/11/2010 00:22, Peter Davis a écrit : > Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with > ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarde

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Davis
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 10-11-2010 12:22, Peter Davis wrote: > >> Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, >> with >> ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or >> more, and even the archive of this list

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Davis
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:56 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Peter Davis wrote: > > Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, > with > > ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or > > more, and even the archi

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-11-2010 12:22, Peter Davis wrote: Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent information. I'm trying to find the

Re: [NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Peter Davis wrote: > Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with > ConTeXt?  The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or > more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent > information. > I'

[NTG-context] XSL-FO to PDF?

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Davis
Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent information. I'm trying to find the most direct route from XSL-FO to PS or PDF