PassiveTeX

Sebastian Rahtz

August 2005

1. Summary

PassiveTeX is a library of TeX macros which can be used to process an XML document which results from an XSL transformation to formatting objects.
PassiveTeX provides a rapid development environment for experimenting with XSL FO, using a reliable pre-existing formatter
Running PassiveTeX with the pdfTeX variant of TeX generates high-quality PDF files in a single operation.
PassiveTeX shows how TeX can remain the formatter of choice for XML, while hiding the details of its operation from the user.