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cocoon, xml based single source documentation

 
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I'm interested in using Cocoon, or a similar system, to single source documentation. The output formats that are needed are web-based
(HTML, JSP, Servlet, lots of leeway here),
PDF, and some sort of help format (e.g. HTML Help)
or something. There's a fairly big requirement
for fully featured Table of Contents and Indexing.
Currently our system begins from Microsoft Word
and gets more painful from there.
Does anyone have experience applying Cocoon, or
any XML based system to generate deliverables in
Web, PDF, and Helpfile formats?
 
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Consider or try FOP yet?
 
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The Cocoon distribution contains examples of output in PDF form (courtesy of FOP - The Formatting Objects branch of XSL stylesheet language), and of course HTML in various incarnations is no problem. I have not seen anything about an XML<->Helpfile conversion, but I bet somebody must be doing it.
Your task "single source documentation" is of course the kind of problem that drove creation of SGML in the first place, so you might widen your search to include SGML resources.
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