<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2011 19:26, Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 14 February 2011 19:04, Mike Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk" target="_blank">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would suggest you look at XML and XSL-FO rather than HTML<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects</a><br>
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If you're not scared of Java then there is always the apache FOP project which is a XSL-FO print driver. One set of mark up can be transformed into any of: PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT.<br>
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There are also XSL-FO processors for C/C++ and probably Python, though I've never used them.<br><font color="#888888">
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Mike</font><div><div></div><div><br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Brain Melt Down.</div><div><br></div><div>Its a file format then? So are there standard tools for dealing with it right or what?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't understand....</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Peter. </div></font></div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Oh Right.....</div><div><br></div><div>so XSL describe a document and how to takes xml data to produce an end product.</div><div><br></div><div>So I need an XML based method to describe by document. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Now I wonder what that would be? Looks fine for HTML but I'm dealing in paper....</div><div><br></div><div>Peter.</div>