NewsForge: From XML to Paper with Prince

“Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose text
markup language often used for data storage or passing messages
between applications. There are a number of libraries available for
processing arbitrary XML within programs, but fewer options to
translate XML it into professional printed documents. Here is one
way to get from XML to PDF.

“Recently, I faced the task of getting XML out of a PostgreSQL
database and into a nicely formatted print document. The data
encoded in the XML was a large legal document (more than 1,000
pages)…”

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