[gurps] Building a VehicleML

[Gerald 'roguebfl' Grenier]

Onno Meyer wrote:

> I want to make my Vehicle of the Week archive accessible
> on my homepage in something better than plain ASCII text
> files. My current idea is to transcribe the archive into 
> an 'universal vehicle format', which can be turned into 
> HTML or PDF at the touch of a button. 
> 
> Currently I'm working on a VehicleML to PDF transformation, 
> partly because I'm leaning towards PDF for my homepage and 
> partly because I do XML to PDF at work. But the beauty of 
> the concept is that I could do HTML relatively quick, too.

Highly recommend that not doing the PDF rout for your website. it great 
hurts the indexing (and the ability for people to find the page via 
searching) as well as re ability for theos with accibilty (like those 
that use special text to speach/brail converters, color blind people 
that use custom CSS for readiablity etc.

as simple XSL template can covert the XML straight into readable XHTML 
webpages, I mean by all meas also offer PDF download for printing but 
don't use PDF for site content

I'm puttering areund with a Java Character program myself that use XML 
for all it data, i can problem to the XSL myself but I would be very 
interested in reading an howto for XML to pdf