Multiple XML into 1 PDF?

JollyRachele · 06-23-2025, 04:29 PM

Hello, I've been trying host of tools to achieve this but have always failed, although something tells me ebook-convert may have the key - although I'm not quite sure how to formulate the command

Here are the XML files I want to convert: https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica

As far as I understand ebook-convert doesn't actually support XML, but for me rendering it as HTML is more than enough (in fact opening it in Firefox displays everything properly, all I need to do is 'stitch' the files together into one PDF file.

Any suggestions for this particular case? (Here, after "gh repo clone https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica", I navigated to the folders containing the XML files and tried appending a '.html' extension before passing all of the files at the same time as an argument with the command 'ebook-convert "*.html" .pdf', but ebook-convert wasn't able to parse them like Firefox did...

kovidgoyal · 06-23-2025, 11:07 PM

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...specific-order

JollyRachele · 06-24-2025, 01:38 AM

Ok, perfect, I've got this far for now:

Code:

bash-5.2$ ls
README.md                   grc.lsj.perseus-eng22.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng1.html   grc.lsj.perseus-eng23.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng10.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng24.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng11.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng25.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng12.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng26.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng13.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng27.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng14.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng3.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng15.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng4.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng16.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng5.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng17.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng6.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng18.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng7.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng19.html  grc.lsj.perseus-eng8.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng2.html   grc.lsj.perseus-eng9.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng20.html  test.html
grc.lsj.perseus-eng21.html
bash-5.2$ cat test.html

<html>
   <body>
     <h1>Table of Contents</h1>
     <p style="text-indent:0pt">
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng1.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng2.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng3.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng4.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng5.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng6.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng7.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng8.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng9.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng10.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng11.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng12.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng13.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng14.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng15.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng16.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng17.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng18.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng19.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng20.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng21.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng22.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng23.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng24.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng25.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng26.html">First File</a><br/>
        <a href="grc.lsj.perseus-eng27.html">First File</a><br/>
     </p>
   </body>
</html>

Before trying to import in Calibre, I checked if it rendered in a browser, and whilw "test.html" did, it wasn't able to load the other files, not even if I clicked on them: do I have a problem with my formatting by any chance?

JollyRachele · 06-24-2025, 01:42 AM

This is the error message my browser would give when trying to open one of the files:

Your file couldn’t be accessed

It may have been moved, edited, or deleted.
ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

JollyRachele · 06-24-2025, 02:12 AM

Here's one last issue I was having with the files (once these two problems are sorted I'll be able to successfully render in PDF

)

If I take this file for instance, which is supposed to show Greek characters, it's instead just displaying plain UTF-8. I wonder if I can somehow tell Calibre to display it like it says to do inside (what was originally) the XML file...

Here is an example file to illustrate what I mean: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pe...rseus-eng1.xml

DNSB · 06-24-2025, 02:17 AM

For what it may be worth, UTF-8 includes the Hellenic character set.

06-23-2025, 04:29 PM	#1
JollyRachele Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2025 Device: None	Multiple XML into 1 PDF? Hello, I've been trying host of tools to achieve this but have always failed, although something tells me ebook-convert may have the key - although I'm not quite sure how to formulate the command Here are the XML files I want to convert: https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica As far as I understand ebook-convert doesn't actually support XML, but for me rendering it as HTML is more than enough (in fact opening it in Firefox displays everything properly, all I need to do is 'stitch' the files together into one PDF file. Any suggestions for this particular case? (Here, after "gh repo clone https://github.com/PerseusDL/lexica", I navigated to the folders containing the XML files and tried appending a '.html' extension before passing all of the files at the same time as an argument with the command 'ebook-convert "*.html" .pdf', but ebook-convert wasn't able to parse them like Firefox did...

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06-23-2025, 11:07 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,318 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...specific-order

06-24-2025, 01:42 AM	#4
JollyRachele Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2025 Device: None	This is the error message my browser would give when trying to open one of the files: Your file couldn’t be accessed It may have been moved, edited, or deleted. ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

06-24-2025, 02:12 AM	#5
JollyRachele Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2025 Device: None	Here's one last issue I was having with the files (once these two problems are sorted I'll be able to successfully render in PDF ) If I take this file for instance, which is supposed to show Greek characters, it's instead just displaying plain UTF-8. I wonder if I can somehow tell Calibre to display it like it says to do inside (what was originally) the XML file... Here is an example file to illustrate what I mean: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pe...rseus-eng1.xml

06-24-2025, 02:17 AM	#6
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 45,946 Karma: 168961900 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For what it may be worth, UTF-8 includes the Hellenic character set.

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