From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2005-11-12T22:06:15+09:00
Subject: Re: DocBook to PDF

On 11/11/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

> Please, nobody shoot me, but I have to believe this can easily be done
> with Java tools.
>
> Now, if the tweak-factor is such that actually handling Java-matter is
> too painful, then perhaps a Ruby solution is better.  But from casual
> following of the xml-dev mailing list, it seems that this sort of thing
> is a well-solved matter in Java.

It is fairly straightforward to convert DocBook/XML to PDF using a
combination of Java tools. I am using the Saxon XSLT processor
(http://saxon.sourceforge.net/), the standard DocBook XSL stylesheets
(http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/), and FOP
(http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) to accomplish this.

I think that, at some point in the past, I considered using Ruby tools
to do this but they either didn't exist or weren't quite up to snuff
(especially with regards to an XSLT processor).