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In my university project I am doing software testing - planning, implementation, evaulation. All test documents have the format:

  • General information
  • Test categories
  • Test cases
  • Test implementation information
  • Test run results
  • Conclusion, errors

As the test subject (software) is about graphs, the test cases are also represented with images (one visio file for one word document). I also have to put some comments on classes and methods. Now I am storing a lot of redundant information in a quite unstructured format (for the computer). The main test results are also in trx files (which are XML and can be parsed easily with powershell). I would like to make this "system" less redundant. I would like to store the test document in a strongly structured format (like xml). My question is whether there is any XML to LaTeX converters? I don't want to use XSLT. Google did not help me this time.

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    – Peter Jansson
    Commented May 12, 2013 at 5:53
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    With xmltex you can directly parse and evaluate XML from LaTeX.
    – Stephan Lehmke
    Commented May 12, 2013 at 5:57
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    as Stephen said you could use xmltex, but despite having written xmltex I would always use XSLT for this. Why don't you want to use XSLT it is the ideal language for the job you describe.
    – David Carlisle
    Commented May 12, 2013 at 9:37
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    See also Is there some typesetting system that uses XML notation? if you don't insist on LaTeX.
    – Martin Schröder
    Commented May 12, 2013 at 14:58
  • It would be helpful if you could explain why you don't want to use XSLT? It's designed for precisely this kind of task, and it seems a trifle perverse to reject it out of hand.
    – Peter Flynn
    Commented May 26, 2013 at 19:34

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You could use DocBook, and convert to LaTeX with Pandoc. 

pandoc -f docbook -t latex yourfile.docbook

DocBook is pretty well documented.

As an alternative to a more structured format, Emacs org-mode can give you plenty of features in a text format, with many export options including LaTeX.

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