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by thangalin 4447 days ago
ConTeXt also provides an XML interface. Unlike PrinceXML, ConTeXt is open source. The community is quite friendly. I've been using it for a couple of years now to produce PDFs from a single source. In my case, I first transform the XML into ConTeX code using XSLT, a step that simpler systems might not require.

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML
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zokier 4447 days ago
Based on quick look, ConTeXt requires you to handle an unholy mixture of XML, XSLT and TeX (and maybe even Lua?), whereas PrinceXML last I checked was just (x)HTML+CSS.
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justincormack 4447 days ago
PrinceXML is actually a CSS engine for print, so there is more reuse.

ConTeXt looks interesting though, I haven't really been following whats been going on for a while, looks interesting.

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