Creating a PDF from XML using XSL FO w/ Python

Question

Could someone point me in the right direction of hopefully a library or code examples, any resources on how to take XML and create a PDF using XSL-FO in Python? If I should have to use an XML renderer, then which XML renderer is recommended?

Answer 1

If you want to run XSLT programmatically with Python, you want lxml.

However, if you just need to create a .fo file from a defined XSL/XML pair, you might as well just use xsltproc, which is available on any Unix-y system on the command line, including OS X.

Once you have the .fo file, use Fop to transform that to PDF.