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

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Marco Marongiu wrote:

> 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.

Basically, PassiveTeX is just another language module that goes into your
pipeline. So you can use AxAddProcessor text/xsl-fo NULL (or whatever
XSLFO is supposed to be). And AxAddStyleMap to map text/xsl-fo to the
PassiveTeX module.

If you want to do LaTeX instead, just copy and paste PassiveTeX.pm to a
new module, and change the command it calls to run pdflatex instead of
pdfxmltex, and it'll do its job.

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