[pdftex] PassiveTeX

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 09:53, Rolf Dieterich wrote:
> When I've been speaking of "fo processor" I meant the part of PassiveTeX
> which generates the tex code. So I probably should be more precisely. Let's use
> these terms:
> PassiveTeX FO processor = PT code generator + PT renderer (which is pdfTeX)

you misunderstand. there is no code generator or converter. TeX reads
the XSL FO XML file directly.

> My first approach with PassiveTeX:
> 1. .src --> .xsl with the PT code generator
>    .src containing XSL-FO but also XSL statements to be preserved for step 2
> 2. .xsl + .xml --> .tex with MSXML at runtime
> 3. .tex --> .pdf with pdfTeX

no. it only works like:

 .src -> .fo with XSLT
 .fo -> .pdf with (Passive)TeX

> No, I only meant generating TeX code.
> For example, XML --> XHTML is done via an XSL transformation (XSL
> stylesheet). Now XHTML is an XML dialect, like MathML, WML and so on. I wonder if it
> would be also possible to produce TeX (which is _not_ an XML dialect) purely
> with means of an XSL processor by applying some XSL stylesheet.
> 

yes, thats easy. XSLT processors mandate a "text" output method


Sebastian