[Klug-general] Document Production

[Peter Childs]

On 14 February 2011 19:26, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:

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> On 14 February 2011 19:04, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
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>> I would suggest you look at XML and XSL-FO rather than HTML
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
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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.
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>> There are also XSL-FO processors for C/C++ and probably Python, though
>> I've never used them.
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>> Mike
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> Brain Melt Down.
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> Its a file format then? So are there standard tools for dealing with it
> right or what?
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> I don't understand....
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> Peter.
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Oh Right.....

so XSL describe a document and how to takes xml data to produce an end
product.

So I need an XML based method to describe by document.

Now I wonder what that would be? Looks fine for HTML but I'm dealing in
paper....

Peter.
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