support for PDF viewing of XML documents

[Ovidiu P. <ov...@xe...>]

Jeff,

I finally had some time to work on the PDF viewing support (I was
really busy at work with a deadline on the project I work on).

There is now a new menu item in the top level XSLT menu, "Apply XSLT,
View PDF". The action applies an XSLT transformation on the input XML
document, then calls the Apache FOP processor on it to generate a PDF
document. After the PDF document is generated, a PDF viewer of choice
is invoked to show the results. You can specify your favorite PDF
viewer through customization. By default xpdf is setup, but
AcrobatReader is another choice. If you have a different viewer than
these two, you can still enter it in the customization.

Everything you need to generate PDFs is included in the package, you
don't need anything additional. I placed an build package at

ftp://xslt-process.sourceforge.net/pub/xslt-process/xslt-process-20010816.tar.gz

I have tested this on Linux, with xpdf and AcrobatReader and it works
fine for me. I've tested with the two files in the tests/fo/
directory, an XML and an XSLT file taken from the FOP 0.20.1
distribution. To test, associate the XML with the XSLT file, and
invoke C-c C-x p.

The testing I've done is minimal, so please let me know if this works
for you with some more complex files. I would also be interested in
somebody testing this on Windows too, I will test it anyway sometime
these days, but more testers are better than one. If everything works
fine, I will make a new release with this functionality over the
week-end.

Regards,
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