xml -> pdf?

[David C. Weichert]

Am Donnerstag, den 18.08.2005, 09:24 +0100 schrieb Matthew East:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was asked to add the styleguide to the linode server, which I've done
> for the html, but a couple of things I wanted to ask about making a pdf
> version.
> 
> 1. The current make pdf script requires apache fop, which in turn needs
> java. Is this the only way to make a pdf from xml? If there is another
> way, preferably using packages from hoary's main repository, it would be
> easier to set up: does anyone know?

For DocBook you can use the 'docbook-utils' package in hoary. It uses
DSSSL and TeX to process XML to PDF (among other formats). Jade and
JadeTeX also work with non-docbook XML but that requires writing your
own DSSSL Stylesheets.


regards
David