ruby && XSL-FO ?

[Benedikt Heinen]

Are there any XSL-FO (to pdf) processors for ruby?


googling for xslfo ruby primarily seems to be pointing to AntennaHouse's
XSLFO implementation - but that one seems to carry a pretty hefty price
tag...




Benedikt

 

[Mark Volkmann]

Are there any XSL-FO (to pdf) processors for ruby?


googling for xslfo ruby primarily seems to be pointing to AntennaHouse's
XSLFO implementation - but that one seems to carry a pretty hefty price
tag...

In my experience, XSL-FO processors are relatively slow. Given that,
you probably wouldn't be adding much to the overall time if you just
used Apache FOP (an open-source, Java-based XSL-FO processor) and
invoked it as a shell command from your Ruby code. This would require
you to write the XSL-FO content to a file before invoking FOP.

 

[Benedikt Heinen]

Are there any XSL-FO (to pdf) processors for ruby?

In my experience, XSL-FO processors are relatively slow. Given that,
you probably wouldn't be adding much to the overall time if you just
used Apache FOP (an open-source, Java-based XSL-FO processor) and
invoked it as a shell command from your Ruby code.

Well, I've used Cocoon before - and I agree with you that the first
invocation of FOP is fairly slow (>2-3 seconds), but subsequent calls are
"relatively" quick (~.25-.5seconds).

This would require you to write the XSL-FO content to a file before
invoking FOP.

That's one of the reasons why I'd rather want to get around it.

Any other ideas?




Benedikt

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

Not XSL-FO, but PDF-Writer might suite your needs.

Nick