Conversion script and command line call

test.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+./xml2pdf.py --xml ../files/test.xml --xsl ../stylesheets/jats-html.xsl -o ../files/testpy.pdf --css ../stylesheets/jats-preview.css

xml2pdf.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys, getopt, logging
+from weasyprint import HTML, CSS
+from lxml import etree
+
+def usage():
+	sys.stderr.write("./xml2pdf.py --xml <xml-file> --xsl <xsl-file> -o <pdf-output> [--css <stylesheet>]")
+
+options, rest = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "o:", ["xml=", "xsl=", "output=","css="])
+
+out_fn = None
+xml_fn = None
+xsl_fn = None
+css_fn = None
+
+for opt, arg in options:
+	if opt in ("-o", "--output"):
+		out_fn = arg
+	elif opt == "--xml":
+		xml_fn = arg
+	elif opt == "--xsl":
+		xsl_fn = arg
+	elif opt == "--css":
+		css_fn = arg
+	else:
+		sys.stderr.write("Unknown option %s"%opt)
+
+if not (out_fn and xml_fn and xsl_fn):
+	usage()
+
+xsl = etree.parse(xsl_fn)
+transformer = etree.XSLT(xsl)
+
+xml = etree.parse(xml_fn)
+
+logging.info
+html = transformer(xml)
+
+if css_fn:
+	css = [CSS(css_fn)]
+else:
+	css = None
+
+HTML(tree=html).write_pdf(out_fn, css)