XML or other markup to LaTeX?

Question

In my university project I am doing software testing - planning, implementation, evaulation. All test documents have the format:

General information
Test categories
Test cases
Test implementation information
Test run results
Conclusion, errors

As the test subject (software) is about graphs, the test cases are also represented with images (one visio file for one word document). I also have to put some comments on classes and methods. Now I am storing a lot of redundant information in a quite unstructured format (for the computer). The main test results are also in trx files (which are XML and can be parsed easily with powershell). I would like to make this "system" less redundant. I would like to store the test document in a strongly structured format (like xml). My question is whether there is any XML to LaTeX converters? I don't want to use XSLT. Google did not help me this time.

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With xmltex you can directly parse and evaluate XML from LaTeX. — Stephan Lehmke, May 12 '13 at 05:57
as Stephen said you could use xmltex, but despite having written xmltex I would always use XSLT for this. Why don't you want to use XSLT it is the ideal language for the job you describe. — David Carlisle, May 12 '13 at 09:37
See also Is there some typesetting system that uses XML notation? if you don't insist on LaTeX. — Martin Schröder, May 12 '13 at 14:58
It would be helpful if you could explain why you don't want to use XSLT? It's designed for precisely this kind of task, and it seems a trifle perverse to reject it out of hand. — Peter Flynn, May 26 '13 at 19:34

johntait.org · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-24T21:31:22.460

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You could use DocBook, and convert to LaTeX with Pandoc.

pandoc -f docbook -t latex yourfile.docbook

DocBook is pretty well documented.

As an alternative to a more structured format, Emacs org-mode can give you plenty of features in a text format, with many export options including LaTeX.

edited May 24 '13 at 21:31

answered May 24 '13 at 21:00

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XML or other markup to LaTeX?

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