Re: XSL-FO to PDF?

From: Renaud AUBIN <aubin@nibua-r.org>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: XSL-FO to PDF?
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:48:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE0674C.6030509@nibua-r.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimm5Q-gU=P65s=o5Dgt1HZRg2SaHcwFimcyzNuJ@mail.gmail.com>

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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 java with saxon/xerces, which is
performant too…

I'm the devil's advocate but what's your need to use ConTeXt. I have not
read all your threads but if you just need:
− to produce pdfs from xml data
− without advanced typesettings
you could use xslt to produce DocBook 5 xml file, include them using
<xi:include href="./data/stuff.xml"/>, configure your layout with an
intermediate xslt + Fo xml config…

Once more, it depends on your original ecosystem and constraints…

If you provide a use case, I should provide a sample if you don't need
it within a couple of hours (but a couple of days)…

Best regards,

Renaud

Le 14/11/2010 22:36, Peter Davis a écrit :
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>   
>> On 13-11-2010 4:14, Peter Davis wrote:
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>>> 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 use ConTeXt to
>>> process the XML (XSL-FO) directly ... get it all under one roof, so to
>>> speak.
>>>
>>>       
>> faster too
>>     
>
> Interesting point.  I initially assumed it would be faster to do all my XML
> processing in ConTeXt, but it occurred to me that perhaps using XSLT to or
> even home-grown XML processing, I could generate a stream of TeX that could
> be processed while I'm still producing it.  So one process might be looking
> at successive data records and generating TeX for the various pages, and
> another process could be simultaneously running TeX to typeset those pages.
>
>
> Plausible?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -pd
>
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