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XTS - XML typesetting system
XTS turns XML data into PDF. You write a layout in XML, point it at your data, and get a fully typeset document -- no GUI, no manual intervention. Think product catalogs, price lists, data sheets, or anything where content changes but the design stays the same.
Under the hood, XTS uses boxes and glue, a Go library that implements TeX's typesetting algorithms. If you know the speedata Publisher, XTS is its next-generation successor.
Getting started
Grab the latest release from the releases page, unzip, add bin/ to your PATH, and you're good to go:
xts new hello
cd hello
xts
open xts.pdf
That's it -- your first PDF from XML.
Documentation
- Manual and reference -- everything from "Hello World" to advanced layouts
- Examples -- complete, runnable projects you can learn from
Building from source
git clone https://github.com/speedata/xts.git
cd xts
rake build
Needs Go 1.21+ and Ruby/rake (or just run the go build command from the Rakefile directly).
License
BSD -- see License.md
Contact
Patrick Gundlach, gundlach@speedata.de
Directories
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changelog
Package changelog reads a changelog.xml file
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Package changelog reads a changelog.xml file |
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commandsxml
Package commandsxml reads the commands.xml file.
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Package commandsxml reads the commands.xml file. |
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fileutils
Package fileutils provides some helper functions for file / directory copying
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Package fileutils provides some helper functions for file / directory copying |
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genschema
Package genschema creates Relax NG and XSD schema files for English and German
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Package genschema creates Relax NG and XSD schema files for English and German |
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