2009/08/18 - Apache AxKit has been retired.

Hello *

I am trying to find out which is the best way (in my special case) to 
produce PDF from XML documents[*]. I am running AxKit 1.5 on a Debian 
"Woody"

I don't know any XSLT and XSLFO. The whole site uses XPathScript 
stylesheets. The XML->HTML transformation work just well now.

Now I would like to produce PDF files. Unfortunately, 
Apache::AxKit::Language::PassiveTeX is undocumented. I downloaded the 
passivetex.zip file from its home site and had a look yesterday night, 
but I didn't see any light.

I took a look to Matt's PDFLib module, and I had to give up -excellent 
job but too complex for my needs[2].

Now, I am considering that a way could be to produce a LaTeX source and 
had it compiled to pdf on the fly somehow... the point is: in your 
opinion what's the best way?

Thanks for any help you can send here!

--bronto

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Footnotes:

[*] Documents are mainly technical manuals; the aren't in *any* standard 
format. We had an old format (that is going to disappear in the next few 
months) and a new one, designed to be complete enough to write technical 
articles but simple enough for a System Administrator with no XML 
experience to write (with some help by XEmacs' XML support).

[2] I also spent some time googleing around, and some other digging in 
this mailing list's archive, but either no previous solution seemed to 
apply to my case, or it wasn't documented enough.

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